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

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 ...

When male mice and pregnant or lactating female mice are placed closely together, chemical signals in the females’ urine stress the males out and make them less sensitive to pain, according to a study ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After giving the mice a mating period of a few hours, the scientists then removed the female mice and waited to see which of them got pregnant. In the control group, 30 percent of the females ended up ...