Researchers have found that the small intestine grows in response to pregnancy in mice. This partially irreversible change may help mice support a pregnancy and prepare for a second. Researchers ...

In research published in Cell, the same team found that pregnant mice had a longer small intestine from just seven days into ...

The female sex hormone estrogen, along with progesterone, appears to underlie a fundamental difference in how males and ...

Pregnancy causes the mouse small intestine to grow, with changes persisting after birth and further increasing after a second pregnancy. The villi and crypts in the intestine also grow but revert ...

Exposed Prognant Mice They devised a vacuum chamber in which they have exposed hundreds of pregnant white mice, each for a period of five hours, to a shortage of oxygen similar to that 28,000 feet ...

image: The gut epithelium of virgin (top), pregnant (middle), and lactating (bottom) mice, highlighting villus growth. view more Credit: Tomotsune Ameku Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that the small intestine grows in response to pregnancy in mice. This partially irreversible change may help mice support a pregnancy and prepare ...

In research published today in Cell, the same team found that pregnant mice had a longer small intestine from just seven days into the pregnancy. By the end of the pregnancy, around day 18, the ...