You may think of the small intestine as a smooth tube that winds its way through your abdomen ... Villi can absorb nutrients through their tops, sides, and bases, dramatically increasing the area ...

The cells within the villi, which you can see here as multicolored circles within the purple or blue outlines, are very important for the proper function of the intestine as a whole. Click on the ...

Villi are tiny, hair-like projections and tissues composed of the cells lining your small intestine's inside walls. They ...

The inner lining of the small intestine nearly doubles in size during pregnancy and breastfeeding, according to new research in mice and human tissue.

Anatomist, Claire Smith, is showing me a real human digestive system ... What you couldn't see is that inside the small intestine are tiny villi, which are finger like projections which increase ...

[50,51] This delay appears related to decreased intake of human milk ... With a combination of the villi and microvilli in the small intestine, it is estimated there is an absorptive surface ...

Strategies to decrease the incidence and ultimately prevent NEC loom on the horizon, such as exclusive use of human breastmilk ... of the villi and microvilli in the small intestine, it is ...

It also has up-close images of mitochondria and the villi inside the small intestine. This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. Students could make models of red blood cells ...

Mechanistically, the researchers identified the RANK receptor/RANK ligand (RANK/RANKL) system as the key to the villous enlargement of the small intestine ... in the intestinal villi, which ...