Influence of starvation and refeeding on mucosal size and epithelial renewal in the rat small intestine

Adult male rats were fasted for 0 (controls), three, five and seven days; a group was refed for one day after six days of starvation. Histological samples were taken from five regions along the length of the small intestine. The sizes of the villi, crypts and mitotic pool were estimated by measuring...

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