The mucosal layer in the small intestine degrades with age in rats, allowing digestive enzymes to slowly escape and leak into organs outside the intestine, including the liver, lung, heart ...

It’s divided into T1a and T1b: T1a means the tumour is within the inner layers of the stomach (the mucosa) T1b means the tumour has grown through the mucosa and into a layer of supportive tissue ...

Effective treatment of many debilitating diseases without side effects could occur by delivering drugs more efficiently to underlying mucosal layers in a controlled manner. Impact of Mucosal ...

Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) signaling protects the intestinal mucosa from injury induced by Clostridium difficile toxins, according to the results of a study published in Gastroenterology.

There are 3 layers of smooth muscle in the small intestine. One is circular and the other 2 run longitudinally. The wall of the small intestine is lined by mucosa, or mucous membrane and serosa ...

When Jeffrey Lipow went in for a routine endoscopy, it revealed a serious problem. A follow-up endoscopic ultrasound confirmed he had a tumor under ...