This process is critical for maintaining the structure and function of the small intestine. Along with digestion, the villi ...

Medically reviewed by Marla Anderson, MD Small intestine cancer is a rare cancer that develops in the tissues of the small ...

“We’ve built a blueprint of the entire gut, and that’s a remarkable achievement,” said study senior author Ramnik Xavier, the ...

In the small intestine there are also specialised structures called villi which have a tiny hair-like structure poking into the small intestine to absorb digested food. If we stretched out all the ...

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 ...

In the small intestine there are also specialised structures called villi which have a tiny hair-like structure poking into the small intestine to absorb digested food. If we stretched out all the ...

and host cells in the small intestine. We’re particularly interested in enteroendocrine cells — cells found in the lining of the small intestine and throughout the intestinal tract — and how ...