Gut organoids mimic the stomach, small intestine, and colon in 3D. Learn how these lab-grown models are advancing digestive ...

The chyme enters the small intestine. Here, about 90% of absorption occurs. Nutrients enter the bloodstream through capillaries in villi. From there, the nutrients travel to various body cells.

Ctla-4 mutant zebrafish exhibited significant intestinal inflammation and dysbiosis, mirroring the pathology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in mammals, providing a new valuable model to the field ...

This important study provides solid evidence that glucosylceramide synthase (GlcT), a rate-limiting enzyme for glycosphingolipid (GSL) production, plays a role in the differentiation of intestinal ...

The mammalian intestine is an organ that can be spatially defined by two axes: longitudinal and vertical. Such anatomical structure ensures the maintenance of a relatively immuno-quiescent and ...

coli. The small intestine of a weaned piglet is about seven meters long and is covered by finger shaped, 0.5 mm long protrusions called villi (see, Figure 1). These villi give the intestine its ...

Results confirmed previous data that MPP are able to better penetrate intestinal folding in between villi as compared to MAP. We believe that the proposed model may further be useful for several other ...