Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Key Takeaways Celiac disease is the most known cause of villous atrophy.Villous ...

Today's bulletin from the Family Health Care Institute (one of the King Hussein Foundation's institutes) discusses celiac ...

You may think of the small intestine as a smooth tube that winds its way through your abdomen. But if you were to look really closely at the inside of the intestine, you would see that it is lined ...

While this image might look like a multicolored tile floor, it is actually a cross section through the fingerlike bumps on the intestinal wall called villi. The cells within the villi, which you can ...

The intestinal epithelium of our body consists of a myriad of elongated villi microarchitectures which increase the total surface area of the inner wall for better absorption of digested nutrients.

A novel microfluidic device revealing diverse and dynamic flows in the small intestine has now been developed. An innovative experimental platform uses microscopic fluorescent beads as substitutes for ...