While this image might look like a multicolored tile floor, it is actually a cross section through the fingerlike bumps on the intestinal wall called villi. The cells within the villi, which you can ...

Following a nutritious diet, staying hydrated, moving your body, and getting treatment for underlying conditions can improve ...

These projections, known as villi, help increase the surface area of the gut, boosting nutrient absorption through the tissue. A similar thing happened in pregnant and breastfeeding mice ...

The result is formation of multiple villi and microvilli. Intestinal villi, with their branching projections and folds, increase the surface area for absorption tremendously. With a combination of ...

This image shows vertical slices, from top to bottom, through several villi from the small intestine of a mouse. The outer membranes of the intestinal villi are represented by solid-colored lines (1).

Anyone who has children knows that a woman's body changes with every pregnancy (and breastfeeding period). Scientists have now discovered that the ...

Because sex and pregnancy hormones regulate RANK–RANKL signalling, we assessed the structure of intestinal villi — tiny, finger-like protrusions in the gut lining that provide a large surface ...

we suggest that it participates in maintaining gut homeostasis. Indeed, oxygen levels vary along the crypt/villi structures formed by the epithelium with the tip of the villi being located under ...