FIG. 3.

Female and male rats with spinal cord injury (SCI) have reduced whole–gut transit time. Rats were gavaged with 2% Evan's blue dye; then, fecal pellets were monitored for the appearance of blue pellets (“whole–gut transit time”). Cumulative distributions show the time at which each rat first released a blue pellet. Prior to injury, rats in the sham and SCI groups had similar whole–gut transit times. By 7 days post-injury (dpi), both female and male SCI rats had accelerated whole–gut transit time; this persisted through 14 dpi in females and through 14 and 42 dpi in males. Color image is available online.