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On day 1, 13 healthy subjects underwent nasal intubation with a 3-m-long catheter, which was allowed to progress to the distal ileum. On day 2, subjects ingested a pH-sensitive wireless motility capsule labeled with 4 MBq <jats:sup>51<\/jats:sup>Chromium [EDTA]. The course of this, as it travelled through the GI tract, was assessed with a single-headed \u03b3-camera using static and dynamic scans. Capsule progression was plotted relative to a background of 4 MBq <jats:sup>111<\/jats:sup>Indium [diethylenetriamine penta-acetic acid] administered through the catheter. Intraluminal pH, as recorded by the capsule, was monitored continuously, and position of the capsule relative to pH was established. A sharp fall in pH was recorded in all subjects; position of the capsule relative to this was accurately determined anatomically in 9\/13 subjects. In these nine subjects, a pH drop of 1.5 \u00b1 0.2 U, from 7.6 \u00b1 0.05 to 6.1 \u00b1 0.1 occurred a median of 7.5 min (1\u201316) after passage through the ileocecal valve; location was either in the cecum ( n = 5), ascending colon ( n = 2), or coincident with a move from the cecum to ascending colon ( n = 2). This study provides conclusive evidence that the fall in pH seen within the ileocolonic region actually occurs in the proximal colon. 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