Scientists led by the Institute of Nanotechnology in Italy, in collaboration with the ESRF, the European Synchrotron in ...

Intestinal villi (singular: villus)are tiny, finger-like projections that line the interior (lumen) of the small intestine. The primary function of villi is to absorb nutrients from food and transfer ...

These cells are split between the tiny, finger-like "villi" structures that line the small intestine or the "crypts" between the protruding villi. The researchers found that progenitor-like T RM ...

Villous atrophy occurs when your intestinal villi—the microscopic, finger-like tentacles that line the wall of your small intestine—erode away, leaving a virtually flat surface. Celiac disease, an ...

The chorion lies closest to the placenta. The chorionic sac encompasses the fetus and the amnion and is covered with chorionic villi until the 8th week. After the 8th week, these villi are ...

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad (TIFRH), Hyderabad, India Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, USA Department of Molecular Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, ...

The data generally provide solid evidence that transformed epithelial cells exhibit higher compressibility than wild-type cells, a property linked to their compaction during mechanical cell ...

Objective Although perturbations in mitochondrial function and structure have been described in the intestinal epithelium of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis patients, the role of epithelial ...

Standards and guidelines for development co-operation with concrete examples of their implementation ...