Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Villi are tiny, hair-like projections and tissues composed of the cells lining your ...

UK farmers now have access to a 5-step guide and vaccine to manage calf cryptosporidiosis, supporting better health for dairy and beef herds.

These nutrients are taken into the bloodstream, via millions of tiny, fingerlike projections called villi, and transported to the liver. What's left in the digestive tract passes into the large ...

1). Indigo carmine dye was then sprayed over the area to determine the presence or absence of intestinal villi. No villi were seen (Fig. 2). In contrast, nodules in the terminal ileum associated ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center say they have identified a gene pathway involving the mineral zinc in mice ...

A human intestinal organoid, displaying typical ‘budding crypts’ and a central ‘villus-like’ domain. The main intestinal cell types are shown in green, blue, red and purple. Membranes are ...

Researchers examined what a shortened bowel looks like over time, and discovered that the villi—tiny, hairlike, fingerlike projections in the small intestine that absorb the food and nutrients ...

A multi-institutional group of researchers led by the Hubrecht Institute and Roche's Institute of Human Biology has developed strategies to identify regulators of intestinal hormone secretion.