Aim and methods: To gain insight into the possible function of pig SR-BI during uptake of dietary fat, its localisation in enterocytes was studied in the fasting state and during fat absorption by ...

The authors examine the role of Numb, a Notch inhibitor, in intestinal stem cell self-renewal in Drosophila during homeostasis and regeneration. This is an important study providing evidence of a Numb ...

Here the authors use a single-cell genomics approach to show that ileal pouches from ulcerative colitis patients feature a unique type of enterocytes which express colonocyte-specific and ...

Researchers from the University of Leicester, working with international collaborators, have unraveled a key mechanism by ...

Shigella infection can cause severe discomfort in humans, emphasizing the need for mechanisms to understand it. With new technologies and animal models, you can see how far life science researchers ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(1):43-55. Improving Gluten Strength Gluten is important to the baking industry because it provides elasticity and shape to dough by forming a network of ...

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2 Department of Gastroenterology, St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow, UK 3 Department of Gastroenterology, Llandough Hospital, Penarth, UK 4 Department of Gastroenterology, St James’s University Hospital, ...

Hereditary hemochromatosis is an inherited iron overload disorder caused by inappropriately low hepcidin secretion leading to increased duodenal absorption of dietary iron, most commonly in C282Y ...