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ArticleJournal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract2003

Effect of aging on the adaptive and proliferative capacity of the small bowel.

Robert P Thomas, Michele Slogoff, Farin W Smith, B Mark Evers

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Article in Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert P ThomasDepartment of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., 77555-0536, Galveston, TX.
Michele SlogoffDepartment of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., 77555-0536, Galveston, TX.
Farin W SmithDepartment of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., 77555-0536, Galveston, TX.
B Mark EversDepartment of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., 77555-0536, Galveston, TX. mevers@utmb.edu.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

TISSUE CULTURE COREP01DK035608 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI HELLMICH, MARK R · 1986 to 2010
$14.0M
SURGICAL TRAINING IN GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOCRINOLOGYT32DK007639 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI RADHAKRISHNAN, RAVI S. · 1992 to 2022
$3.6M
Surgical Studies of Ontogeny, Aging and the GutR37AG010885 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI EVERS, BERNARD MARK · 2002 to 2011
$3.6M
NIA NIH HHS R37 AG10885NIDDK NIH HHS P01 DK35608NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK07639
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our society is aging at a rapid rate; the effects of aging on physiologic functions (e.g., small bowel adaptation) are poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to determine the ability of the aged small bowel mucosa to adapt after resection. Young (2-month-old) and aged (24-month-old) F344 rats underwent massive (70%) proximal small bowel resection (SBR) or sham operation; rats were killed at 9 or 16 days after surgery. The remnant small bowel and corresponding sham segments were harvested, weighed, and analyzed for DNA content and villus height. To determine whether the adaptive response after SBR could be enhanced, aged rats underwent SBR or sham operation and were treated with either neurotensin or saline solution (control). SBR resulted in adaptive hyperplasia in the remaining small bowel remnant in both young and aged rats at 9 and 16 days compared with sham animals. At 9 days, significant increases were noted in weight, villus height, and DNA content of the distal remnant in young and aged rats after SBR; the increases were similar in both young and aged rats. At 16 days, both young and aged rats displayed significant increases in remnant weight after SBR. Administration of neurotensin increased the weight of the remnant intestine in aged rats after SBR compared with saline treatment. Our findings demonstrate that aged small bowel mucosa exhibits a proliferative and adaptive capacity in response to SBR that was similar to that of the young animals. In addition, neurotensin administration enhanced the normal adaptive response of the small bowel in aged rats, providing further evidence that neurotensin may be therapeutically useful to augment mucosal regeneration in the early periods after massive SBR.

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalAgingAnimalsCell DivisionDNAHyperplasiaIntestinal MucosaIntestine, SmallNeurotensinRatsRats, Inbred F344DNANeurotensin

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PMID12559189
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