Phenol red as indicator of the digestive tract motility in chickens.
Phenol red has been shown to produce no effects on intestinal motility of 24-hour-old chickens, allowing for quantitative measures of gastrointestinal transit and emptying. The results show that 1 hr after ingestion, the main digestive contents are stored in the crop with lesser amounts in the muscular part of the stomach, in the ileum, and in the rectum and caeca.
D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D008297:Male; D010635:Phenolphthaleins; D010637:Phenolsulfonphthalein
D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D010635:Phenolphthaleins; D010637:Phenolsulfonphthalein