People who prefer to drink loose leaf tea might be on to something: Scientists in Spain have found microscopic evidence of plastic pollution getting into human cells after being leached from tea bags.

Mucus barrier weakening and failure is associated with exhaustion of the sentinel goblet cell response to microbes. Despite the crucial function of the intestinal mucus at the host-microbial interface ...

Research from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain found that individual tea bags steeped in boiling water can ...

Pathogenic Bacteria Use a Sugar in the Intestinal Mucus Layer to Infect the Gut, Study Shows July 3, 2023 — A new study shows the sugar sialic acid, which makes up part of the protective ...

Plastic pollution from food packaging, like tea bags, releases billions of MNPL particles, which can infiltrate human cells, ...

The biological interaction experiments showed that mucus-producing intestinal cells had the highest uptake of micro and nanoplastics, with the particles even entering the cell nucleus that houses ...

New research has uncovered a worrying source of micro and nano plastic pollution released from commonly used packaging, ...

Mucus is a substance that lines the moist surfaces of your body, including the lungs, sinuses, mouth, stomach, intestines, and eyes. “It is mainly a combination of water and large molecules ...

Intestinal barrier is a functional entity separating the gut lumen from the inner host, and consisting of mechanical elements (mucus, epithelial layer), humoral elements (defensins, IgA ...

Throwing up mucus can occur when mucus from your stomach lining or mucus that you swallow appears in your vomit. Mucus from postnasal drip and coughing can also trigger vomiting, especially in ...