Anomalies of intestinal rotation are most often asymptomatic and are often incidental findings in adults. Nonrotation of the intestine occurs in about 1 in 500 live births and has been described in ...

Gastrointestinal (GI) malrotation, sometimes referred to as incomplete rotation or intestinal nonrotation, is any deviation from the physiological rotation and/or fixation of the GI tract during ...

A new study finds that gut rotation during development is orchestrated by two waves of expression of a transcription factor called Pitx2. The second wave, it turns out, is triggered by mechanical cues ...