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Medical AI Inquiry: You was designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.  Labels: BACKGROUND, METHODS, RESULTS. Meshes: Adaptation, Physiological, Amoxicillin, Analysis of Variance, Animals, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Bacterial Translocation, Clindamycin, Eating, Hyperplasia, Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, Interleukin-6, Intestine, Small, Leukocyte Count, Male, Nitric Oxide, Random Allocation, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Short Bowel Syndrome, Weight Loss.
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Do oral antibiotics attenuate bowel segment reversal-induced systemic inflammatory response and body weight loss in massively bowel-resected rats? Context: Using a massively bowel-resected rat model, our previous study demonstrated that small bowel segment reversal stimulates jejunal hyperplasia but may also increase the possibility of bacterial translocation and the elevation of circulating white blood cells and serum interleukin-6 that may reduce the whole-body anabolism. The aim of this study is to investigate whether oral antibiotics might attenuate the inflammatory responses and might therefore facilitate the beneficial effects of bowel segment reversal. Male Wistar rats (approximately 270 g) underwent a 70% small bowel resection with (REV group) or without (CON group) a 3-cm small bowel segment reversal, or underwent a sham operation (SHAM group). After surgeries, half of the animals in the REV group were given oral clindamycin plus amoxicillin (50 plus 50 mg/kg/d, ANT group) for 3 weeks. Oral antibiotics administration significantly attenuated the decreases in feeding efficiency (g of body weight/100 kcal diet) and increases in the circulation of white blood cells, serum nitric oxide, and interleukin-6 (1-way ANOVA, p < .05), which are associated with bowel segment reversal. In addition, antibiotics significantly increased serum concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-I, significantly decreased the total numbers of bacteria in the intestine, and tended to reduce the extent of jejunal hyperplasia in rats with bowel segment reversal.
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Our results suggest that oral antibiotics may be used as an adjuvant to attenuate the inflammatory responses and to enhance the anabolic responses in massively bowel-resected patients with bowel segment reversal. Final Decision: yes