Intestinal epithelial cells migrate from the base of the crypt to the villi where they are shed. However, little is known about the cell shedding process. We have studied the role of apoptosis and ...

Villi are found in the innermost layer of your intestine, known as the mucosa. Epithelial cells make up the villi, and several types of these cells exist. These include: Villi are extremely tiny ...

23 Both goblet cells and enteroendocrine cells populate the villi, whereas Paneth cells ... RARα isoform in murine IECs to determine whether epithelial intrinsic RARα signaling participates ...

Enteroendocrine cells secrete hormones into blood vessels that penetrate each villus. Paneth cells, located in the epithelial layer facing the intestinal crypts, secrete lysozyme, an enzyme that ...

In addition to the cytokine and humoral alterations, diarrhea-causing factors in systemic infections might include direct invasion of gut epithelial cells by various pathogens, inflammation of the ...

The epithelial lining of our intestine is organized in a crypt-villi architecture and serves many essential ... and regenerates continuously from multipotent intestinal stem cells (ISCs) present at ...

Ultrastructural studies of centipede and other myriapod ovaries reveal direct soma-germline contact across the basement ...

No. of cells per 100 epithelial cells 34.6±12.0 35.7±12.0 ... the gluten-induced damage in the duodenal mucosa. The ratio of villus height to crypt depth is widely considered to be the most ...

Epithelial cells are packed tightly together and serve as a barrier between the interior and the exterior of your body. You have countless epithelial cells throughout your body that make up what ...