It can take six hours for the small intestine to do its job. The nutrients are sucked from the inner surface of the small ...

The small intestine is also super thin, just one and 1/2 to two inches around, almost the diameter of a golf ball, yet its surface is massive. If you flattened it out, it would be about the size ...

Researchers have found that the small intestine grows in response to pregnancy in mice. This partially irreversible change may help mice support a pregnancy and prepare for a second.

The apparatus used to model absorption in the small intestine can be set up like this. At regular intervals the liquid inside and outside of the Visking tubing is sampled and tested for starch ...

Secondly, the key element of the intestinal barrier affecting permeability are described. This barrier represents a huge mucosal surface ... the gut lumen from the inner host, and consisting ...