Dr. Alexander Lake, Gastroenterologist at AdventHealth, joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to emphasize the vital ...

Alexander Lake, DO, a gastroenterologist at AdventHealth, joined Gayle Guyardo, host of the globally syndicated health and ...

"Leaky gut syndrome is not a medical diagnosis," she says. "Instead, it's a popular term that's often used to describe ...

Specialized cells in the intestinal lining of Burmese pythons allows them to completely absorb the skeletons of their prey.

The bowel is a common place for endometriosis lesions to grow. Bowel endometriosis is often misdiagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS); it can occur inside, on, or around the intestines.

The intestinal epithelium is surrounded by visceral muscles and peritrophic membrane that separates the intestinal cells from bacteria presented in the lumen. (B) The epithelium of the mouse small ...

DURING its absorption by the small intestine a substance leaves the bowel lumen, traverses the epithelial lining, passes through the connective-tissue stroma of the lamina propria and enters termin ...

A tethered pressure measurement capsule was developed for measuring the small intestine contraction pressure to assist in locating capsules within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and quantifying the ...

A specially constructed double-lumen radiopaque tube was used to obtain aspirates from the small intestine. Two tubes, each with an internal diameter of 1 mm, were tied to each other with surgical ...

Paneth cells are versatile secretory cells located in the crypts of Lieberkühn of the small intestine. In normal conditions, they function as the cornerstones of intestinal health by preserving ...

BA transporters facilitate the uptake of BAs from the small intestinal lumen, allowing BAs to engage with nuclear BA receptors, and helminth infected mice showed reduced expression of genes encoding ...

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce short-chain fatty acids that are crucial to many body functions. The Kobe ...