Ditch these common habits that may be aging your gut. Gut health is a key component of healthy aging and has been linked with ...

Watching what passes through your gut gives useful health clues sometimes. Stool look and quality show what is happening ...

Researchers have identified three types of nerve cells connected to intestinal villi, suggesting that previously unknown ...

Doctors are tapping into to the emerging field of the gut microbiome to try to treat some diseases differently.

Fiber has a ton of GI clout—gastroenterologists regularly praise the nutrient for its ability to keep you regular, nourish ...

The intestinal epithelium serves as a dynamic barrier to the environment and integrates a variety of signals, including those from metabolites, commensal microbiota, immune responses and stressors ...

Xavier and colleagues collected tissue from the small intestine epithelium of mice and built transcriptional profiles using RNAseq. One of the striking revelations was the discovery of new subtypes of ...

And we knew that that exists in some of the upper GI diseases, but we didn’t realize that the same sort of mechanism exists in the small intestine,” Elmentaite said. Epithelial cells are among ...

Further-more, discrete, small spherical inclusion bodies that ... This delay in reversion of intestinal epithelial-cell size to normal is not surprising. In a study of gastric washings from ...

Researchers have made substantial progress in comprehending the overall anatomy of the small intestine, especially in epithelial zonation. Epithelial zonation is how different cell functions are ...