Function of the motor apparatus of the stomach in experimental lead intoxication

Summary It was established in chronic experiments on dogs that the picture of experimental lead poisoning was to a considerable extent similar to that seen during clinical manifestations of saturnism in human beings. This similarity was manifested by the intermittent character of its course, i.e., repeated changes of aggravation (correspondingly exacerbation) and amelioration (correspondingly lead carrier state) periods. Registration of the motor function of the stomach in these animals indicated that its disturbances in chronically intoxicated animals also had a course with alternating periods of aggravation and normalization. Obvious lead intoxication was also accompanied by a marked depression of the motor function of the stomach.(Presented by Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR V. V. Parin) Translated from Byulleten' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp. 36–40, May, 1966