Bowel movements, bloating, and other digestive issues may not be the easiest topics to discuss with your doctor, but having a ...

1 Departments of Basic Medicine and Forensic Medicine, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China 2 Behavioral Pediatric Department and Child Primary Care Department, Hangzhou Children’s Hospital, ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term that encompasses two chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract—ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Symptoms of both forms of IBD overlap and include ...

There are between 10 to 40 villus per square millimeter (or roughly 6,000 to 25,000 ... Intestinal villi are tiny, finger-like projections lining the small intestine that absorb nutrients from the ...

Cocker Spaniels Mango, Callie and Dotty, Labradors Hetty, Rosie and Jodie, and Flat-coated Retriever Willow are showing real ...

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of intestinal disorders that cause prolonged inflammation of the digestive tract. It can include ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have achieved a major breakthrough in drug delivery: they have successfully transported lipid nanoparticles encapsulating messenger RNA (mRNA) to the immune system ...

The Rome diagnostic criteria for the functional bowel disorders and functional abdominal pain are used widely in research and practice. A committee consensus approach, including criticism from ...

The method could be used to develop a blood test to identify inflammatory-bowel-disease patients most at risk.

About half of the nerve cells normally present die in Batten mice as the disease progresses, causing problems with bowel motility. The basis for treating these diseases is to introduce a working ...