title: Radiological method for investigation of the motor activity of the reticulum in sheep.
abstract: Radiological method for investigation of the motor activity of the reticulum in sheep. Acta Physiol. Pol., 1977, 28 (1): 85-91. Using a TUR-D 1001 X-ray apparatus, Chirana electronic image intensifier equipped with an Admira 16 film camera the authors studied the motor activity of the reticulum in sheep. The investigations were carried out on 5 young sheep. Barium suspension was used as contrast medium. The successive phases of reticulum contractions were visualized on X-ray films obtained with a seriograph. The authors determined the time of complete reticulum contraction in films obtained at a rate of 16 frames per second. It was found that the mean time of reticulum contractions in sheep is 6 seconds. The high accuracy and usefulness of radiocinematography for studying reticulum contractions in sheep is stressed.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002933:Cineradiography / Q000295:instrumentation; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D012159:Reticulum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000502:physiology; D012756:Sheep / Q000502:physiology*