Alexander Lake, DO, a gastroenterologist at AdventHealth, joined Gayle Guyardo, host of the globally syndicated health and ...

Coeliac disease doesn’t always show symptoms but continues to do similar intestinal damage Read on to know about the hidden ...

A photomicrograph depicting the cytoarchitecture of a normal section of intestinal epithelial mucosa. Mucosal projections known as villi and associated intestinal glands are seen/ Credit: CDC In this ...

No difference in the incidence of NEC (stage ≥II), intestinal perforation, mortality from NEC, age at NEC diagnosis, or feeding intolerance between groups was found. [48] ...

Breastmilk promotes the growth of bifidobacteria, which produce acetic and lactic acid that in turn inhibits the growth of many pathogenic, gram-negative organisms. [50,51] VLBW infants have a ...

Celiac disease and gluten sensitivity damage intestinal villi and create malabsorption that often shows up in nail changes before digestive symptoms become severe.

For roughly one in every hundred people, food containing even the smallest amounts of gluten can deliver a gutful of hurt and ...

The dietary-induced changes in villus cells encompassed ectopic expression of Paneth cell markers (a lineage normally confined to the bottom of small intestinal crypts), elevated expression of the Wnt ...

Background: Small intestinal epithelial cells (IEC) show apoptosis in physiological turnover of cells and in certain inflammatory diseases. Aims: To investigate the role of caspases in the progression ...

Epithelial cells shed from the intestinal villus in starved rats were trapped in mucus which the goblet cells were stimulated to secrete; the number of trapped cells per villus was counted in whole ...

Villous atrophy is the destruction of your intestinal villi, the tiny fingers of cells that absorb nutrients from food. Read some possible causes.