[The characteristics of the electrical activity of the human colon recorded noninvasively].

In ten healthy volunteers and ten patients with diseases involving the upper section of the gastrointestinal tract (chronic cholecystitis, chronic gastritis) the electrical activity of the colon is registered noninvasively using skin electrodes to the projection site of sigmoid and colon descendens. Recordings are taken with original gastrograph. Apart from the electrocolograms (EColG), the changes in intracolonic pressure in the group of 10 patients are also registered.

Nitric oxide modulates cholinergic neurotransmission in cat duodenum.

1. Longitudinal muscle strips isolated from cat proximal duodenum were characterized by spontaneous phasic contractions. 2.

Non-invasive electrocologram: non-invasive recording of the human colonic electrical activity.

The electrical activity of the descending colon of fifteen healthy volunteers was recorded non-invasively by cutaneous electrodes sticked on the abdominal wall along the descending colon projection--electrocologram (EColG). The electrical activity of the colon and stomach was recorded by an original electrogastrograph. The means, S.

Non-invasive electrocologram: correlation between the electrical activity of the dog colonic muscle wall recorded by cutaneous and implanted electrodes.

Chronic experiments were performed on dogs with silver, bipolar, ball-shaped electrodes implanted on the colonic and of the gastric muscle wall. Cutaneous electrodes were placed on the abdominal wall, along the projection of descending colon and also of the stomach, at the beginning of each experiment. Slow waves were led off in the electrocolomyogram (EColMG), corresponding to low-amplitude waves in the non-invasive electrocologram (EColG) with a frequency of 6.

[The reactivity of canine colonic and ileal smooth muscle to carbachol (Jestryl)].

Experiments were carried out on longitudinal and circular smooth-muscle strips isolated from the ileum and colon of healthy dogs (controls) and of dogs with local peritonitis. The changes in the contractile responses of the strips to carbachol administered cumulatively were studied, and the EC50 and pD2 values were calculated from the dose-response curves. For the colonic longitudinal strips the EC50 was 6 x 10(-8)M and the pD2 was 7.