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

Researchers are making ever more sophisticated mini organs in the lab — and now they can grow their own blood vessels. The ...

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.

Collagen membranes are widely used in guided bone regeneration (GBR) because of their good biocompatibility and low immunogenicity. As a bioderived collagen membrane, small intestinal submucosa (SIS) ...

The unique microenvironment present on intestinal lamina propria and mesenteric lymph nodes promotes the induction of oral tolerance to antigens captured on intestinal lumen, a mechanism that might ...

In patients with small intestinal Crohn’s disease (CD), there is a need for a simple, non-invasive test to reduce dependence on invasive procedures (eg, enteroscopy) and costly imaging (eg, MRI or CT ...

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.

This case study describes a patient with a high stomal output following short-bowel resections. The authors discuss how the condition can be managed with nutritional, medical and surgical therapies.

Background: Defects in the small intestinal epithelial barrier have been associated with inflammatory bowel disease but their role in the causation of disease is still a matter of debate. In some ...

We have previously reported on the anti-inflammatory effects of a water-soluble chitosan derivative, zwitterionic chitosan (ZWC). In the present study, we hypothesized that orally administered ZWC ...