Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Intestinal villi (singular: villus)are tiny, finger-like projections that line the ...

You may think of the small intestine as a smooth tube that winds its way through your abdomen. But if you were to look really closely at the inside of the intestine, you would see that it is lined ...

During fetal development, the small intestine undergoes several invaginations, where the small bowel becomes ensheathed. The result is formation of multiple villi and microvilli. Intestinal villi ...

A contact protein printing technique enables researchers to control the formation of villi in human gut models, making it ...

These intestinal organoids contain stem cell and villus compartments that emerge side-by-side during their development and fully recapitulate in vivo tissue. Intestinal organoids that are classically ...

Additionally, researchers have been investigating the impact of various chemotherapeutic agents on intestinal permeability and villus length. A study demonstrated that drugs like irinotecan and 5 ...