Figure 4

Anastomotic strength in experiment 2. Animals received carprofen beginning at the day of operation or the first or second day thereafter and were terminated 3 days later. Panel A gives the individual bursting pressures (and means as horizontal bars) for all animals: black circle denotes an absence of signs of anastomotic leakage and ○ the presence of such signs, while black triangle indicates that the bursting site was outside the anastomotic line. In panel B bars represent mean (+ SEM) for breaking strength.