We become forgetful as we age. This is often seen as a universal truth, but in fact it is far from universal: some people ...

Researchers have developed a human intestinal cell model that closely mimics the structure and function of the human gut, enabling more precise prediction of drug-induced gastrointestinal toxicity ...

When parts of the small intestine are diseased or die, the treatment can involve surgically removing the affected tissue.

Center for Weight Loss Surgery explains the differences between duodenal switch and gastric sleeve surgeries for weight loss.

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. In this study, the authors have performed tissue-specific ...

Dr. Anju Goel, MD, MPH, is a public health consultant and physician with more than 10 years of experience in the California public health system. The pancreas is an organ that makes enzymes for ...

The gallbladder stores and releases bile, which helps digest fats. Bile is stored in the gallbladder and released when fatty food is eaten. The function of the gallbladder is to store bile, a fluid ...

Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Science, "Regional encoding of enteric nervous system ...

ABSTRACT: Objective: To measure the expression levels of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and interleukin-1β (IL-1β) in the duodenal bulb mucosa of patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) and to ...

DURING its absorption by the small intestine a substance leaves the bowel lumen, traverses the epithelial lining, passes through the connective-tissue stroma of the lamina propria and enters terminal ...

IN the latter part of the nineteenth century discovery of the bacterial basis for many diseases, together with dramatic demonstrations of the potency of bacterial toxins, led to the concept of ...