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Cecum

Known as: LARGE INTESTINE, CECUM, caecal, Cieco 
A blind pouch-like commencement of the colon in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen at the end of the small intestine and the start of the large… 
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Gastrointestinal systemSegment of large intestine

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1997
1997
Growth performance and intestinal microbial populations of growing pigs fed diets containing sucrose thermal oligosaccharide caramel.
Four experiments were conducted to determine growth performance and changes in intestinal microbial populations of growing pigs… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Dynamics of a continent caecal reservoir for urinary diversion.
Motor activity of the caecal reservoir for urine, and of the intussuscepted nipple valve in the ileal outlet, was studied in… 
1983
1983
Metabolism of mercapturic acid-pathway metabolites of 2-chloro-N-isopropylacetanilide (propachlor) by gastrointestinal bacteria.
  • G. LarsenJ. Bakke
  • Xenobiotica; the fate of foreign compounds in…
  • 1983
  • Corpus ID: 23658344
1. Mercapturic acid pathway metabolites of propachlor, labelled with 14C, were incubated with pig caecal contents, small and… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Biochemical effects on germ-free mice of association with several strains of anaerobic bacteria.
The effects of the following changes throughout the association of germ-free mice with increasing numbers of anaerobic bacteria… 
1979
1979
Hepatic cellular hypoxia in murine peritonitis.
Reduced oxygen consumption and lactic acidosis were observed frequently in patients with peritonitis. This study was designed to… 
1978
1978
A model of salmonella enteritis: the behaviour of Salmonella enteritidis in chick intestine studies by light and electron microscopy.
Salmonella enteritidis was injected into isolated "loops" of duodenum, midgut and ileocaeca in anaesthetized 1-day-old chicks… 
1977
1977
Action of oleic acid on the exocrine pancreatic secretion of the conscious rat: evidence for an anticholecystokinin‐pancreozymin factor
The effects on exocrine pancreatic secretion of an intraduodenal infusion of oleic acid (2 ml in 60 min) has been assessed in… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Adynamic ileus of the colon. An indication for cecostomy.
Twenty patients were seen with adynamic ileus of the colon, a condition characterized by massive gaseous distention of the large… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Calcium and the contractile effect of carbachol in the depolarized guinea-pig taenia caecum.
Abstract Carbachol (10−8–10−3 M) caused a phasic contraction in the guinea-pig taenia caecum suspended in the Ca-free, K-Tyrode… 
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
The gradient of electrical potential difference and of sodium and potassium of the gut contents along the caecum and colon of normal and sodium‐depleted rats
1. The Na, K and water content of stools, and of gut contents removed from the terminal ileum, caecum and colon were determined…