Located over the entire surface of the small intestine, the villus can be found from about the common bile duct to the ileocecal valve. A single layer of columnar epithelium containing capillaries ...

Ablation of RIPK1 in αβT cells results in spontaneous proximal small intestinal pathology, characterized by microbiome-mediated epithelial hyperproliferation and TNF-driven villus atrophy, underlining ...

"Intestinal permeability" is a term shaped preferentially by electrophysiologists studying epithelial permeability in Ussing chambers using tissue explants from animals or humans for research ...

maastrichtuniversity.nl With great interest, we have read the article by Dotti et al,1 who analysed the transcriptional signature of epithelial organoid cultures (EpOCs) generated from patients with ...

Intestinal stem cells continuously self-renew by dividing and differentiate into the specialised cells of the intestinal epithelium, which renews throughout life.