DURING its absorption by the small intestine a substance leaves the bowel lumen, traverses the epithelial lining, passes through the connective-tissue stroma of the lamina propria and enters terminal ...

This report describes the serial morphologic changes observed in peroral mucosal biopsies of the small intestine obtained before and after vitamin B 12 replacement from 8 patients with previously ...

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is a pathological overgrowth of gut bacteria upwards or rather in a retrograde fashion, into the upper gastrointestinal tract. This has many consequences, ...

Intestinal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury is a potentially serious consequence of acute mesenteric ischemia, hemorrhagic, traumatic or septic shock, severe burns or some surgical procedures, ...