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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2012 Jun 1;178(2):632–639. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.05.044

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Surgical manipulation of the rat gastrointestinal produced a postoperative delay in gastrointestinal transit as measured by the lumenal distribution of an orally fed bolus of a non-digestible, non-absorbable FITC-dextran (70 kD) after 90 minutes. The calculated geometric center (GC) from the individual distribution histograms averaged 9.18 ± 0.67 for control, while after surgical manipulation the fluorescent marker was mainly distributed within the mid-jejunum and had an average GC of 6.92 ± 1.47 (N=6, p ≤ 0.003, one-way ANOVA with posthoc Bonferoni analysis).