Effect of Deficiencies of Sodium and Potassium on Motility of the Intestine of the Rat.
- 1 June 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Vol. 80 (2) , 248-250
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-80-19585
Abstract
Maintenance of adult female albino rats on a diet containing 0.005% potassium for 6 weeks resulted in a 50% decrease in intestinal propulsive motility. Reduction of the sodium content of this diet from 0.25% to 0.005% did not result in an increase in intestinal motility. Feeding a diet containing 0.005% sodium and 0.5% potassium did not alter the intestinal propulsive motility of the albino rats when compared with observations of control animals on a diet containing 0.5% potassium and 0.25% sodium.Keywords
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