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Small Bowel Transplantation In Mice
Published on: August 20, 2007
The cell cycle in the small intestine transplanted beneath the kidney capsule in syngenic mice
Cell and Tissue Research
|February 2, 1977
Abstract:
Transplantation of a small fragment of the ileum beneath the kidney capsule in syngenic mice results in the formation of a cyst lined with proliferating intestinal epithelium. The duration of the cell cycle in the epithelium was determined (using tritiated thymidine and the FLM method) as 14.5 h, as compared with 11.5 h in the intestinal epithelium in situ. We conclude that the intestinal content has little effect on the cell cycle of epithelial cells of the small intestine.

