Many health surveillance programs for wild cervids do not include routine parasite screening despite evidence that gastrointestinal parasites can affect wildlife population dynamics by influencing host fecundity and survival. Slaughter weights of moose in some regions of Norway have been decreasing over recent decades but any role of parasites has not yet been considered. We investigated parasi...

The effect of the somatostatin analog agonist octreotide (Oct) on gastric emptying of 12.5% glucose during and after intragastric fill was examined in nondeprived rats equipped with stainless steel gastric fistulas. The rate of intragastric infusion (1.0 ml/min) and the volumes delivered (6 or 12 ml) were within the ranges typically observed in rats normally ingesting the same stimulus. In expe...

background: there are controversies regarding the usefulness of the pyloric drainage methods after esophagectomy as well as differences among various pyloric drainage techniques. therefore, we compared the outcome of pyloromyotomy, pylorus buginage, and no intervention methods on gastric emptying among patients undergone esophagectomy. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial, p...

The effect of a single dose of metoclopramide (Maxolon) on the gastric emptying rate of a liquid test meal was measured in a group of parturient women by a double-sampling dye-dilution technique. The subjects were given either metoclopramide 10 mg or sterile water by intramuscular injection on a double-blind random basis at the start of the test. The gastric emptying rate was significantly incr...

Sternbauer, K. 2005. Metabolic studies in cattle using the hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp technique. Doctoral dissertation. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 91-576-7037-4. Hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp, HEC, originally developed for determing insulinmediated glucose disposal and insulin sensitivity in humans, was used and evaluated in cattle. In the present study the following investigations were pe...

Hummingbirds have received considerable attention in studies of feeding and energy regulation because of their small size, frequent feeding, and their use of energy-rich sugar solutions (e.g. Diamond et al. 1986, Ewald and Carpenter 1978, Hainsworth 1981). They store nectar in a crop, and this internal reservoir supplies energy between foraging bouts (Hainsworth and Wolf 1972, Karasov et al. 19...

The recent introduction of radioisotopic technique to measure bladder emptying flow rate&` has prompted a resurgence of interest in the topic. Since no comprehensive description of bladder emptying flow rate (as a function of bladder volume) has been discussed in the literature, we present such an approach in this communication. The topic is of general interest since radioisotopic methods provi...

Although delayed gastric emptying is found in some patients with functional dyspepsia, there seems to be little relation between rate of emptying and symptoms. This study examined the hypothesis that food maldistribution rather than gastric stasis may equate to symptoms in such patients and used scintigraphic techniques to quantify the partition of gastric contents between proximal and distal s...

Investigations were carried out in man and dog to study the validity of Cannon's law of denervation supersensitivity in relation to parasympathetic denervation of the stomach. Subthreshold doses of carbachol did not accelerate gastric emptying before vagotomy but caused a significant increase in the rate of gastric emptying after vagotomy. These findings may be relevant to aberrations of gastro...