Pregnancy Increases Mouse Intestinal Size

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Pregnancy irreversibly remodels the mouse intestine

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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 for a second .

The organs of many female animals are remodelled by reproduction, but the underlying mechanisms behind the response of the gut to pregnancy have only recently begun to be investigated.

Tomotsune Ameku , Anna Laddach , Hannah Beckwith , Alexandra Milona , Loranzie S. Rogers , Cornelia Schwayer , Emma Nye , Iain R. Tough , Jean-Louis Thoumas , Umesh Kumar Gautam , Yi-Fang Wang and Shreya Jha .