Explore new treatments for bowel conditions. Research shows hope for short bowel syndrome by reprogramming the large ...

What would you see if you peered inside a human small intestine? Here’s a glimpse at its structure, revealing a community of cells with different functions. A biopsy like this is generally very small ...

They are densest at the beginning of the small intestine and begin to thin out toward the end. Covering the surface of each villus are mucus membranes made up of two types of cells: goblet cells ...

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 ... Biology in ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have analyzed the molecular crosstalk between pain fibers in the gut and goblet cells that line the walls of the intestine. The work shows that chemical signals ...

Some of these cells absorb nutrients from the digestive contents, whereas others (called goblet cells ... leaving behind small fragments with recognizable bits of the nuclear material.

requiring constant and precise regulation of intestinal stem cells (ISCs) to sustain the production of new absorptive enterocytes and secretory cells, including Paneth, goblet, tuft, and ...