title: The effects of thermal injury on gastrointestinal motor activity in the rat.
abstract: Gastrointestinal motor function was studied in conscious rats. The gastric emptying time, small intestinal motility and the colonic transit time were measured. A burn injury, covering about 15 per cent of the body surface area was applied to experimental animals; control animals received a mock burn. Burn injury caused a marked inhibition of gastrointestinal motility. This inhibition was significantly improved by a continuous saline infusion, but saline infusion alone had no effect on the gastrointestinal propulsive motility of normal rats.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002056:Burns / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003106:Colon / Q000503:physiopathology; D005746:Gastric Emptying; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000503:physiopathology; D051381:Rats; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D012965:Sodium Chloride