Abstract:PURPOSE: Evaluation of colonic healing in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
METHODS:Fifty male, young and inbred rats were used. Twenty-five Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY) as control and twenty-five spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) as an experimental group. Colotomy and bowel suture at 2.5 cm from the peritoneal reflection were performed. All animals were allocated randomly into sub-groups for review at the third, seventh and fourteenth days after surgery.We evaluated the concentration of angiotensin II, the burs… Show more
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