Effect of epidermal growth factor on small intestinal sodium/glucose cotransporter-1 expression in a rabbit model of intrauterine growth retardation.

Introduction: Intrauterine growth-retarded (IUGR) infants have impaired gastrointestinal function with feeding difficulties and predisposition to necrotizing enterocolitis. The rabbit provides a model of IUGR based on uterine position. Sodium/glucose cotransporter-1 (SGLT-1) is a membrane protein responsible for carbohydrate transport across the intestinal brush border membrane.

Effect of epidermal growth factor infusion on fetal rabbit intrauterine growth retardation and small intestinal development.

Background/purpose: Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) infants have impaired gastrointestinal function with resultant feeding difficulties and predisposition to necrotizing enterocolitis. Supplemented amniotic fluid swallowed by the developing fetus is a potential prenatal treatment for IUGR. Rabbits have naturally occurring IUGR fetuses based on uterine position.

Ontogeny of cholinergic regulation of fetal upper gastrointestinal motility.

Objective: In the fetal rabbit immediately prior to birth (day 30; 0.97 gestation), intragastric atropine suppresses upper gastrointestinal (GI) motility, indicating that cholinergic receptors are expressed and functional at birth. To explore the developmental timing of upper GI cholinergic receptor function, we assessed the effect of intragastric atropine administration in rabbit fetuses during the last 10% of gestation.

Initial presentation of coccidioidomycosis during inguinal herniorrhaphy.

Coccidioidomycosis is a fungal infection endemic to the desert regions of the southwestern United States. Pulmonary symptoms predominate and are usually mild and self-limited. Dissemination is rare in the immunocompetent host.

Management of ovarian cysts in women undergoing restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis.

More than half of all patients undergoing restorative proctocolectomy (RP) for ulcerative colitis (UC) are women, yet there is a paucity of information regarding the frequency, management, and outcome of ovarian cysts. A single surgeon's (E.W.