MIT scientists have found that an amino acid called cysteine can help the gut heal itself. In mouse studies, a cysteine-rich ...

Chemotherapy may severely damage the intestinal mucosa, resulting in a condition referred to as mucositis (1,2). Mucositis is characterized by major morphologic changes of the intestinal epithelium, ...

To study absorption, two different approaches have been used. In vivo methods, such as measuring the disappearance of a test substance from the gut, its appearance in body fluids or its fecal output, ...

Biopharmaceuticals, medium- and high-molecular weight biologically active macromolecules, are not easily absorbed by the small intestine, the main organ responsible for gastrointestinal absorption, ...

TRANSPORT of sugars and amino-acids in the small intestine occurs by apparently similar Na +-activated mechanisms which are believed to involve reversible binding of substrate to specific membrane ...

Perhaps stool chromatograms should be much more widely used. In methionine malabsorption syndrome, for example, there is no amino aciduria and the specific defect of intestinal methionine absorption ...

A diet rich in the amino acid cysteine may have rejuvenating effects in the small intestine, according to a new study from MIT. This amino acid, the researchers discovered, can turn on an immune ...

A new UC Davis Health study has uncovered how Salmonella bacteria, a major cause of food poisoning, can invade the gut even when protective bacteria are present. The research, published in the ...

A new study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that human noroviruses, the leading viral cause of foodborne ...

A new UC Davis Health study has uncovered how Salmonella bacteria, a major cause of food poisoning, can invade the gut even when protective bacteria are present. The research, published in the ...