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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2015 Jun 19;158(6):1598–1608. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2015.05.009

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Electromechanical coupling integrity was evaluated using potassium chloride (KCl). KCl caused a rapid and robust sustained contraction in both the implant and the native intestine. KCl response in the implants was around 50% of the force generated in the native rat intestine.