Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now shown how mucus protects the small intestine in mice. In the future, this finding may lead to new ways of preventing relapse in Crohn’s disease in ...

One of the many barriers to getting drugs where they need to be in the human body lies in the digestive tract, where walls of mucus line the insides of the intestines. This layer can prove to be an ...

Oral drug delivery is the most common and cost-effective way to deliver a treatment. But drugs must make it through the harsh, acidic environment of the stomach, resist degradation by enzymes, ...

One reason that it’s so difficult to deliver large protein drugs orally is that these drugs can’t pass through the mucus barrier that lines the digestive tract. This means that insulin and most other ...

The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

Technology that delivers insulin orally rather than via regular injections would be a game-changing advance in medical science, and MIT scientists have been working fervently toward this aim over many ...

The effect of ILC2 in worm infections: Cross-section through the small intestine after infection with the roundworm Nippostrongylus brasiliensis. Goblet cells in the intestine produce increased ...

Aranan Tarih Aralığı: 2018-8-13 / 2018-08-14 Aranan Kelime: ch 21 6 the intestinal phase the microvilli in the small intestine group of answer choices are shed into the lumen to make up the mucus ...