The digestive system does far more than simply process food. This complex network serves as the foundation for overall health, influencing everything from immune function and brain health to ...

Decreased fat absorption or malabsorption can lead to unhealthy weight loss and digestive issues like diarrhea ... and bacteria that would otherwise be retained within the lumen of the GI tract and ...

This review outlines the technical aspects and diagnostic performance parameters of nuclear medicine procedures used on patients with disorders of the lower gastrointestinal tract, with the ...

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Drugs that consist of large proteins or RNA typically can't be taken orally because they are easily broken down in the digestive tract. For several years, Traverso's lab has been working on ways ...

EndoFLIP stands for endoluminal functional lumen imaging probe ... An endoscopy is a procedure that looks at the digestive tract. During an endoscopy, the patient is sedated or has some type ...

WHEN the diagnosis of foreign body in the respiratory tract has been established by history ... If a foreign body causes only narrowing of the bronchial lumen, a wheeze is the cardinal sign.

The diameter of the CBD was increased up to 4 cm, and large size stones present within the lumen. A CT scan has also revealed a cholecysto-duodenal fistula. Open cholecystectomy was decided as a ...

This study described anatomical, histological and histochemical features of the mucosal layer of the digestive tract of Tilapia sparrmanii Smith, 1840, an omnivorous freshwater fish endemic to ...

Similarly, sampling of the luminal metabolome could identify changes in nutrient digestion and absorption, while sampling of the small intestinal microbiota would allow identification of microbial ...

In between the lumen and epithelium ... on their formation by digestive enzymes, which are present in the small intestinal brush border, and of which, the secretion is regulated by hormones secreted ...