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

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 ...

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal cells absorb, according to two new studies from Rutgers Health ...

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 ...

The inner lining of the small intestine nearly doubles in size during pregnancy and breastfeeding, according to new research in mice and human tissue. When you purchase through links on our site ...

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 ...

In contrast, PCCs dominated in the proximal colon and the terminal ileum of the small intestine. This was the basis ... locally via non-classical antigen presentation by the intestinal epithelium to ...

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 ...

by uncovering the uptake of small intestine epithelium-derived exosomes by the liver and elucidating the impact and mechanisms of their cargo miR-21a-5p and miR-145a-5p on hepatic lipid metabolism ...

by uncovering the uptake of small intestine epithelium-derived exosomes by the liver and elucidating the impact and mechanisms of their cargo miR-21a-5p and miR-145a-5p on hepatic lipid metabolism ...

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 ...