Sea cucumber gut regrowth

Regeneration: basic research on living systems, not technology.

Also: Holothuria

Sea cucumbers can expel their internal organs and grow them back.

Known properties: Sea cucumber gut regrowth

Only what the cited papers report.

A new gut forms from thickened mesentery in about 3 weeks. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-010x(19980701)281:4<288::aid-jez5>3.0.co;2-k

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1998 Rebuilding the intestine

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lab biology 1998

Rebuilding the intestine

García-Arrarás and colleagues tracked intestine regrowth in Holothuria glaberrima after evisceration: all tissue layers were present by the second week and normal proportions about a week later.

As reported in: García-Arrarás, Estrada-Rodgers, Santiago et al. (1998). Cellular mechanisms of intestine regeneration in the sea cucumber,Holothuria glaberrima Selenka (Holothuroidea:Echinodermata). The Journal of Experimental Zoology. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-010x(19980701)281:4<288::aid-jez5>3.0.co;2-k

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