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It also reduced colonic flow rate, increased orocolonic transit time, modified the postprandial intestinal motility by inducing supplementary phase 3 motor complexes and did not affect caecocolonic motility. Intraduodenal infusion of a hypertonic solution of mannitol (900 mOsm\/l; 0.6 ml\/minute) for the first postprandial hour strongly reduced or reversed net colonic water absorption, increased the colonic flow rate, accelerated the orocolonic transit, and induced profuse diarrhoea. After loperamide administration, all these effects were blocked and the relative colonic water absorption, expressed as the fraction of flow entering the colon, was strongly increased. Mannitol did not modify motility of the small and large intestine, and supplementary phase 3 motor complexes were observed when mannitol infusion was preceded by loperamide administration. 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