People with gluten intolerance experience similar symptoms to coeliac disease. The difference is, after consuming gluten, ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified three types of nerve cells connected to the intestinal villi, suggesting ...

Intestinal villi (singular: villus)are tiny, finger-like projections that line the interior (lumen) of the small intestine. The primary function of villi is to absorb nutrients from food and ...

The human small intestine is an essential organ that helps us absorb nutrients and vitamins from food. It is an average of 6 meters long and is covered with millions of villi that are separated by ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists based in the Netherlands, and in China, has found that intestinal cells can change specializations during their lives, driven by the BMP signaling pathway, an ...

While this image might look like a multicolored tile floor, it is actually a cross section through the fingerlike bumps on the intestinal wall called villi. The cells within the villi, which you can ...

Conditions along the small intestine differ completely from one point to another, from the crypts lining the inner walls to the tips of the protruding villi. While the area closest to the wall of ...

Iron-containing macrophages, present in various tissues in patients with iron-storage diseases, have been demonstrated to pass from the intestinal villus into the intestinal lumen, acting to ...

This damages their villi, small finger-like projections found along the wall of the small intestine. When your villi are injured, your small intestine can’t properly absorb nutrients from food.