The removal of the protein BECLIN1 causes a condition with similarities to IBD. Original story from La Trobe University La Trobe University researchers have identified a protein that is integral to gut health, providing an important lead in the search for a treatment for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Research published in Communications Biology,...
Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand Your gut has a mind of its own. A “second brain” of nervous system cells, including glia (stained green in this cross section of a mouse...
UCLA studies suggest newly described pathway could be a treatment target Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES HEALTH SCIENCES UCLA researchers have described a previously unknown step in the complex process by which dietary cholesterol is processed in the intestines before being released into the bloodstream – potentially revealing a new pathway to...
Understanding the relationships within the microbiome opens the door to a new world of medical opportunities for conditions from Inflammatory Bowel Disease to infections, autoimmune diseases and cancers.Peer-Reviewed Publication HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH CREDIT: HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH The more diverse species in your gut, the better it is for your health. Now...
by The Scripps Research Institute Researchers showed that PIEZO2 receptors in sensory neurons control the rate of gut transit. In this fluorescently stained microscopy image, nerve endings stemming from the dorsal root ganglia that express the PIEZO2 protein are shown in cyan, and the nuclei of enteric neurons are shown in magenta. Credit: M. Rocio Servin-Vences (Scripps Research). Gastrointestinal and...
by University of Pittsburgh Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Restoring and improving gut health may be key to slowing HIV progression to AIDS, according to a new study by University of Pittsburgh infectious diseases scientists published today in the journal JCI Insight. The animal study, which was performed with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), the monkey form of HIV, revealed that tackling...
by Luisa Low, University of Sydney Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The human gut is an extraordinarily dynamic place, with millions of interactions between microbes, bodily processes and chemicals taking place every minute. This dynamic gastrointestinal interplay has an important role in our health, however, the relationship and interaction between the different members of this microbial...
Emily Shiffer November 21, 2022 Pain is how our bodies tell us something’s wrong, alerting us to injury or infection and helping doctors make a diagnosis. But pain is not fun, so we often try to block it using medication. But a surprising new study led by Harvard Medical School researchers suggests that blocking acute pain may actually lead...
Interview conducted by Aimee Molineux Oct 21 2022 In this interview, News Medical speaks to Isaac Chiu, Ph.D., and Daping Yang, Ph.D. of Harvard Medical School, about their latest research, revealing the surprising properties of pain.Thought LeadersIsaac Chiu, Ph.D.Daping Yang, Ph.D.Harvard Medical School Please can you introduce yourself and tell us about your background, as...
by Technical University Munich Gut motility determines flows. (a) The gut is a muscular tube, whose motility patterns induce flows that affect the abundance of nutrients and bacteria. Abundances, in turn, feed back on motility. (b) Mathematical notation. (c) and (d) In vitro spatiotemporal map of the contraction amplitude observed for the small intestine of mice,...
