JULY 8, 2024 by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress SARS-CoV-2 spike protein-encoding RNA (green) identified in rectosigmoid tissue of an individual with Long COVID 676 days after COVID-19 infection with no known or suspected reinfection. Credit: Henrich Laboratory, UCSF Division of Experimental MedicineA large team of medical researchers at the University of California, San Francisco,...
JUNE 25, 2024 by Marcela Quintanilla Dieck, Massachusetts General Hospital Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Host & Microbe (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.05.022A new study by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of the Mass General Brigham, reveals that particular strains of gut bacteria are linked to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a condition that affects...
JUNE 17, 2024 by Vincent Ho, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain No, you’re not imagining it. People really are more likely to poo in the morning, shortly after breakfast. Researchers have actually studied this. But why mornings? What if you tend to poo later in the day? And is it worth training yourself to...
Molecule produced in gut can have protective effect against flu, study showsIn experiments with mice, researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil and the Pasteur Institute in Lille (France) found that viral load and inflammation decreased in animals infected by influenza virus when they were given the substance. Peer-Reviewed PublicationFUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À...
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...
