title: The mechanism of lincomycin-induced diarrhoea.
abstract: Metabolic studies were performed before and seven days after treating rats orally with lincomycin. Following the treatment the mean faecal weight increased from 302.2 g/72 hr +/- 3.8 (S.D.) to 65.5 +/- 8.2. The faecal fat excretion was unchanged, and the weight increase was mainly due to increased water content. To find whether the watery diarrhoea was due to bile acid malabsorption, the absorption rate of [14C]-taurocholic acid was measured in untreated rats and rats treated with lincomycin using an in vivo perfusion technique. There was no significant difference in bile acid absorption rate measured at three different concentrations of bile acid in the perfusate. Alternative mechanisms of lincomycin-associated diarrhoea are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001647:Bile Acids and Salts / Q000378:metabolism*; D001834:Body Water / Q000032:analysis; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000139:chemically induced*; D005243:Feces / Q000032:analysis; D007408:Intestinal Absorption / Q000187:drug effects*; D008034:Lincomycin; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D013656:Taurocholic Acid / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001647:Bile Acids and Salts; D013656:Taurocholic Acid; D008034:Lincomycin