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The response of small-bowel epithelial migration during a nonenteric infection was studied in the rat. Sixteen hours after a subcutaneous inoculation ofD. pneumoniae, a nonsustained increase in crypt mitotic activity occurred This was followed by a similar nonsustained increase in small-bowel epithelial-cell migration 8 hr. later. Neither the appearance of the epithelial cells nor the structure of the villi was altered during the infection.
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Shambaugh, G.E., MacNair, D.S., Beisel, W.R. et al. Small-bowel epithelial migration during a generalized nonenteric infection in the rat. Digest Dis Sci 12, 403–408 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02241944
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