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Intestinal transit and opaque enema study in chagasic mice
1Departament of Gastroenterologic Surgery, Hospital das Clínicas University of São Paulo Medical School.
Revista Do Hospital Das Clinicas
|January 1, 1995
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.