Human intestinal M cells function as dendritic cell-like antigen-presenting cells, displaying constitutive MHC-II activity ...

A team at Stanford Medicine has delivered something people with Type 1 diabetes have waited decades to hear: a cure in ...

Context Duodenal carcinoids are extremely rare, and their characteristics and biological behavior have not been fully elucidated. Objective To analyze the clinicopathological characteristics of ...

After years of overeating and yo-yo dieting, Dorsey Hernandez’s health began to suffer. Standing 5 feet, 5 inches tall, she weighed 364 pounds — severe obesity that took a toll on her mental and ...

1 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Department for Internal ...

The US humorist Christopher Morley once described the human body as “an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing”. He wasn’t wrong: from our cardiovascular and lymphatic systems to our guts and urinary ...

People with the hereditary disease familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) have a greatly increased risk of developing a malignant tumor of the duodenum. Researchers have now discovered a mechanism in ...

Background Oat ingestion in coeliac disease (CD) is generally regarded as safe but can trigger enteropathy and T cells specific for oat avenin in the gut and blood of some individuals. Objective To ...

Christopher Damman is on the scientific advisory board at Oobli, Supergut, and One BIO. Microbiome research to date has been much like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. How much can be ...

β-conglycinin from soybean has been recognized as one of the major feed allergens. This study investigated the effects of β-conglycinin-induced allergic sensitization on chicks’ small intestines. A ...