Throughout the three parts, the small intestine houses a complex network of blood vessels, nerves, and muscles that aid it in accomplishing its digestive roles. The small intestine sits in the ...

The small intestine is an important part of the digestive system that connects the stomach to the large intestine. As the longest part of your digestive tract, the small intestine is responsible ...

The images offer a clear view of cells and blood vessels in tissue samples, and allow investigators to measure the density of capillaries, small blood vessels in the wall of the intestine.

Enteroendocrine cells secrete hormones into blood vessels that penetrate each villus. Paneth cells, located in the epithelial layer facing the intestinal crypts, secrete lysozyme, an enzyme that ...

The images offer a clear view of cells and blood vessels in tissue samples, and allow investigators to measure the density of capillaries, small blood vessels in the wall of the intestine.

CHRISTOPHER DAMMAN: 100%, and there’s actually some new technology that’s come out in recent years. And for a while now, we’ve had clinical tools that just take pictures of the small intestine, and ...

For over a decade, scientists have been growing organoids—small clusters of cells that mimic a particular organ—to serve as miniature biological models. Organoids of the brain have been used ...

The clot most often forms in a vein called the "superior mesenteric vein," close to the small intestine. ... of swelling in the intestines and blockages in the blood vessels around your intestines.

Researchers have improved human small intestinal organoids ... Together, these cells form a barrier between the side where the food passes and the side where the blood vessels and immune cells are.

ACE2 is abundant on the cells lining the alveoli of the lungs, but large concentrations of the protein also exist on cells that line the small intestine and those lining blood vessels.