PMID: 9416569Aug 1, 1997Paper

Effects of chair-restraint on gastrointestinal transit time and colonic fermentation in male rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta)

Journal of Medical Primatology
S RabotO Szylit

Abstract

The incidence of an 18 day chair-restraint on the digestive physiology of male rhesus monkey was investigated for space research purposes, comparing four trained restraint subjects with two vivarium controls. Chair-restraint induced a 2.5-fold acceleration of the gastrointestinal transit time, which persisted throughout the 7 day postrestraint period, and an increase of the fecal dry matter content, which mean value rose from 40.7% to 69.6%. Fecal pH remained unaltered throughout the experiment. Modifications of fermentative metabolites produced by the colonic microflora and excreted through the breath (hydrogen and methane) or in the feces (short chain fatty acids and ammonia) could not be reliably related to chair-restraint and probably involved side-stress factors. On the whole, alterations due to chair-restraint are shown to be different from those reported in the literature, following a modification of the dietary composition. These data may help to predict the alterations of digestive physiology likely to occur in immobilized human patients.

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