Our bodies are truly excellent at holding onto fat. “We absorb more than 95% of what we consume,” says Kimberly Buhman, professor of nutrition science. She studies how the body processes lipids, a ...

Villi are tiny, hair-like projections and tissues composed of the cells lining your small intestine's inside walls. They serve a critical role in digestion, absorbing nutrients from food and helping ...

A team of researchers has developed a wirelessly activated device that mimics the wavelike muscular function in the esophagus and small intestine responsible for transporting food and viscous fluids ...

The morphology and regeneration of the digestive system of the ophiuroid Amphipholis kochii were investigated. The epithelia of the esophagus and stomach of A. kochii were composed of typical ...

The brush border is a complex and highly plastic organelle required for intestinal homeostasis and is specialized for absorption of nutrients Thousands of tightly packed microvilli form the brush ...

Neonatal intestinal disorders that prevent infants from getting the nutrients they need may be caused by defects in the lysosomal system -- or cell recycling center -- that occur before weaning.

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