{"id":183019,"date":"2024-02-19T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/frog-embryo-study-helps-scientists-unravel-the-human-birth-anomaly-of-intestinal-malrotation"},"modified":"2024-02-19T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T07:23:00","slug":"frog-embryo-study-helps-scientists-unravel-the-human-birth-anomaly-of-intestinal-malrotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/frog-embryo-study-helps-scientists-unravel-the-human-birth-anomaly-of-intestinal-malrotation","title":{"rendered":"Frog embryo study helps scientists unravel the human birth anomaly of intestinal malrotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/frog-embryo-study-helps-scientists-unravel-the-human-birth-anomaly-of-intestinal-malrotation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does our intestine, which can be at least 15 feet long, fit properly inside our bodies? As our digestive system grows, the gut tube goes through a series of dramatic looping and rotation to package the lengthening intestine. Failure of the gut to rotate properly during development results in a prevalent, but poorly understood, birth anomaly called intestinal malrotation.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a study published in the journal <i>Development<\/i>, scientists from North Carolina State University have uncovered a potential cause of this life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n<p>Intestinal malrotation affects 1 in 500 births but the underlying causes are not well understood. To find out why gut revolution could go amiss, scientists need to first understand intestinal rotation during normal development, a complex process that still baffles biologists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does our intestine, which can be at least 15 feet long, fit properly inside our bodies? As our digestive system grows, the gut tube goes through a series of dramatic looping and rotation to package the lengthening intestine. Failure of the gut to rotate properly during development results in a prevalent, but poorly understood, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}