Located over the entire surface of the small intestine, the villus can be found from about the common bile duct to the ileocecal valve. A single layer of columnar epithelium containing capillaries ...

"Intestinal permeability" is a term shaped preferentially by electrophysiologists studying epithelial permeability in Ussing chambers using tissue explants from animals or humans for research ...

The purpose of a screening test is only to identify a subset from the screened population to whom the diagnostic test (e.g., chorionic villus sampling/amniocentesis) needs to be offered. A positive ...

maastrichtuniversity.nl With great interest, we have read the article by Dotti et al,1 who analysed the transcriptional signature of epithelial organoid cultures (EpOCs) generated from patients with ...

Intestinal stem cells continuously self-renew by dividing and differentiate into the specialised cells of the intestinal epithelium, which renews throughout life.

An abnormal Pap smear result of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) means that an area of cells of the cervix (the narrow neck of the uterus) looks abnormal when examined under a ...