You may think of the small intestine as a smooth tube that winds its way through your abdomen. But if you were to look really closely at the inside of the intestine, you would see that it is lined ...

Villi are tiny, hair-like projections and tissues composed of the cells lining your small intestine's inside walls. They ...

The inner lining of the small intestine nearly doubles in size during pregnancy and breastfeeding, according to new research in mice and human tissue.

the small intestine undergoes several invaginations, where the small bowel becomes ensheathed. The result is formation of multiple villi and microvilli. Intestinal villi, with their branching ...

The initial 20 cm (8 inches) of small intestine is the duodenum. The duodenum has a velvety appearance with numerous villi. The common bile duct and pancreatic duct drain into this section of the ...

Mechanistically, the researchers identified the RANK receptor/RANK ligand (RANK/RANKL) system as the key to the villous ...

The epithelial lining of our intestine is organized in a crypt-villi architecture and serves many essential functions including maintenance ... the ISC niche exists in the crypt together with ...

Alveoli in the lungs, fish gills and the villi in the small intestine are adapted so that they have short diffusion distance, big concentration difference and large surface area. This means that ...