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Abstract
A liquid elemental diet (Vivonex) was given to rats for 6 days while control animals received a normal diet. At the end of the experiment each animal received one intraperitoneal injection of tritiated thymidine at 8 a.m. Animals from each group were killed hourly during the first 24 h after the injection and the proliferative activity was studied by autoradiography of the mucosa of the colon using the labeled mitoses-wave method. The epithelial cell proliferation was significantly decreased in the colon of the Vivonex-fed animals.Entities:
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Year: 1981 PMID: 7226207 DOI: 10.1007/bf00234557
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Tissue Res ISSN: 0302-766X Impact factor: 5.249