If the mucosa in the nose is the body's first line of defense, the intestinal mucosa could be described as the second. In addition to handling the snot we swallow, it must interact with everything ...

A: Animal; ACE: Accessory cholera enterotoxin; H: Human; ZOT: Zonula occludens toxin.

At the juncture of innate and adaptive immune responses in the intestinal mucosa lie intestinal DCs, which drive both protective responses against oral pathogens and tolerogenic responses to ...

pylori infection in the human stomach and determine whether infection upregulates epithelial ST6Gal-I expression, a glycosyltransferase that is overexpressed in multiple mucosal cancers including ...

“Innovative therapeutics for autoimmune diseases of the intestinal mucosa have largely been dominated by injectable drugs. Our small molecule, OR-812, has the potential to offer IBD patients a ...

Human milk not only supplies the nutritional needs of the newborn and protects the baby against infection by confering trophic protection to the intestinal mucosa, but additionally shapes the ...

Considering the biological effects that we do know most about (inhibition of cyclooxygenase [COX]-1 and -2), the most ...