Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Villi are tiny, hair-like projections and tissues composed of the cells lining your ...

Similar to other parts of the digestive system, the large intestine is made up of four layers of tissue: mucosa (innermost layer), submucosa, muscular, and serosa. These layers help protect the ...

and small and large intestines (including the rectum and anus). Conditions causing inflammation in any of these regions can lead to erythematous mucosa, including stomatitis, esophagitis ...

Although tissues generated from intestinal organoids resemble the mucosa, functional smooth muscle layers and the neural plexus are absent. An example that highlights the clinical importance of ...

A: Animal; ACE: Accessory cholera enterotoxin; H: Human; ZOT: Zonula occludens toxin.

The first of three sections of the small intestine, the duodenum, produces large quantities of mucus to protect the intestinal lining from acid in the chyme. Measuring about 20 feet (6 meters ...

Our intestines are densely packed with bacteria that could kill us and yet live harmoniously within us. The intestines are very vascular; they have their own immune system and regulation mechanisms.

Purdue University scientists isolated it from layers of tissue called small-intestine submucosa, or SIS, after they discovered more than a decade ago that the small intestine possessed unusual healing ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

Did you know if you unfolded your intestines, they'd be taller than a giraffe? Yep, they form a digestive tube so lengthy it's got two sections. The so-called small intestine is about 22 feet long ...

Guido Hooiveld’s proof-of-concept study, examining how the small-intestine microbiota influences different blood glucose responses when people eat the same foods, will be enabled by his Global ...