The workings of the small intestine have long been a mystery, but now we are discovering the hidden roles this organ plays in ...

The small intestine, despite its name, is the longest part of the gastrointestinal tract. It works with other organs of the digestive system to further digest food after it leaves the stomach and ...

The intestine is protected by mucus, which in the small intestine forms a single, easily removable mucus layer and in the colon forms a double layer, with the inner mucus layer firmly attached to ...

The mucosal layer in the small intestine degrades with age in rats, allowing digestive enzymes to slowly escape and leak into ...

The stomach has three layers: the oblique layer, the middle circular layer, ... Food moves to the small intestine from the stomach, which absorbs water and some nutrients.

Functioning small intestine created in laboratory experiments Date: July 6, 2011 Source: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Summary: Researchers have successfully created a tissue-engineered small ...

Your small intestine is around five metres long, making it the longest section of your digestive tract. Although it is longer than your large intestine it has a smaller diameter.

Type of injury caused by intestinal rotavirus infection affects how the small intestine repairs itself. Crypt-based columnar cells (CBCs) play primary role. About Careers Internship MedBlog Contact us ...

Non-thermal irreversible electroporation (NTIRE) has recently been conceived as a new minimally invasive ablation method, using microsecond electric fields to produce nanoscale defects in the cell ...