On the growth and form of the gut

T Savin, NA Kurpios, AE Shyer, P Florescu, H Liang… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
… Thompson’s On Growth and Form 2 , with its focus on a mathematical and … growth in
determining form. However, with the modern revolution in molecular biology, the field focused on a …

Villification: how the gut gets its villi

AE Shyer, T Tallinen, NL Nerurkar, Z Wei, ES Gil… - Science, 2013 - science.org
… The villi of the human and chick gut are formed in similar stepwise progressions, wherein …
depend on the sequential differentiation of the distinct smooth muscle layers of the gut, which …

Growth factors and gut function

NJ Seare, RJ Playford - Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 1998 - cambridge.org
… is a major endocrine organ, producing many ‘gut’ hormones and acts as a focus for … the gut
is dependent on the constant renewal of the epithelium and, in the stomach and the colon, on

Physical organogenesis of the gut

NR Chevalier - Development, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
… Striving to mimic the physiological tension exerted by the vitelline duct on the early gut loop
(Figs 3 and 5), our group has shown that applying a constant, static longitudinal stretch force …

Mechanobiology of vertebrate gut morphogenesis

JF Durel, NL Nerurkar - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2020 - Elsevier
… Approximately a century after D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form, … of gut development
that have emerged primarily from mechanobiology-motivated approaches that span from gut

Bacterial growth, flow, and mixing shape human gut microbiota density and composition

M Arnoldini, J Cremer, T Hwa - Gut microbes, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… human gut microbiota is highly dynamic, and host physiology and diet exert major influences
on … In our recent study, we integrated new quantitative measurements on bacterial growth

Small intestinal length: a factor essential for gut adaptation.

LT Weaver, S Austin, TJ Cole - Gut, 1991 - gut.bmj.com
growth during embryological, prenatal, and postnatal life, and the considerable 'surplus' length
of the mature gut … to summarise the published data on the growth of the small intestine of …

Matrix-entrapped fibers create ecological niches for gut bacterial growth

N Bulut, TM Cantu-Jungles, X Zhang, Z Mutlu… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
form on the human gut microbiota and the fermentation SCFA metabolites (Fig. 1). We
hypothesized when soluble arabinoxylan becomes crosslinked into an insoluble matrix it supports …

Effect of feeding Lactobacillus‐based probiotics on the gut microflora, growth and survival of postlarvae of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man)

HK Venkat, NP Sahu, KK Jain - Aquaculture research, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… There was no growth on Pseudomonas isolation agar (PIA); MSA while pink … on SSA. This
indicates LAB were not the natural inhabitant of gut of postlarvae as there was no growth on

Smooth muscle contractility causes the gut to grow anisotropically

D Khalipina, Y Kaga, N Dacher… - Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… To isolate the effect of smooth muscle force on growth we therefore dissected the guts from
their surrounding tissues. We found that an appropriate oxygen supply was critical to achieve …