title: Intestinal transit and opaque enema study in chagasic mice.
abstract: The report concerns as experimental study utilizing thirty-three mice inoculated subcutaneously with 1000 blood forms of Trypanosoma cruzi. Intestinal transit and morphology of colon were studies by means of X-rays. In subacute stage intestinal transit was normal. In chronic stages the mice displayed a delay in evacuation time. In one out of 12 animals the opaque enema documented the existence of megacolon.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001466:Barium Sulfate; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003287:Contrast Media; D004733:Enema; D005772:Gastrointestinal Transit; D008531:Megacolon / Q000503:physiopathology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D011859:Radiography
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D001466:Barium Sulfate