A: Animal; ACE: Accessory cholera enterotoxin; H: Human; ZOT: Zonula occludens toxin.

Food allergy, or the aggressive immune system reaction following the consumption of a certain food or food ingredient, typically involves immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies and can be potentially ...

Vitamin D is one of the most important elements for our health. Russian gastroenterologist Yelena Mironova explains how it affects the ...

In the present review, current knowledge on mucosal barrier and its role in disease prevention and therapy is summarized. First, the relevant terms 'intestinal barrier' and 'intestinal ...

Food allergies can be life-threatening due to the rapid and exaggerated immune response. While mucosal mast cells (MMCs) are excessively proliferated during food allergies, the precise mechanisms that ...

Objective The pathogenesis of UC relates to gut microbiota dysbiosis. We postulate that alterations in the viral community populating the intestinal mucosa play an important role in UC pathogenesis.

Other things that could cause an increase in lactose intolerance include infections, inflammatory or autoimmune diseases like ...

Cell-cell interactions help drive tolerogenic or inflammatory responses to the maelstrom of antigens passing through the gut.

The work will be of interest to colleagues studying intestinal biology. C) Whole-mount immunostaining of ileum from an adult Plp1-eGFP mouse for GFAP imaged at the level of the villus-(top panels) and ...