Gut microbiota may play a vital role in type 2 diabetes remission in mice, said a new study. In a new study published in The American Journal of Pathology, researchers investigating gastric bypass in ...

This article, part 4 in a 6-part series, describes the physiology and functions of the jejunum and ileum, the last two sections of the small intestine, where most absorption of nutrients takes place.

THE small intestine comprises the longest portion of the alimentary canal and yet receives small consideration in the diagnosis of intestinal tumors. The reason is the rarity of neoplasms in the small ...

The small intestine is approximately 21 feet long and consists of three sections - the Duodenum, Jejunum and the ileum, most of the digestion and absorption of food occurs in small intestine.

The US humorist Christopher Morley once described the human body as “an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing”. He wasn’t wrong: from our cardiovascular and lymphatic systems to our guts and urinary ...

The small intestine is a tubular structure within the abdominal cavity that carries the food in continuation with the stomach up to the colon from where the large intestine carries it to the rectum ...