A: Animal; ACE: Accessory cholera enterotoxin; H: Human; ZOT: Zonula occludens toxin.

Food allergy, or the aggressive immune system reaction following the consumption of a certain food or food ingredient, typically involves immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies and can be potentially ...

In the present review, current knowledge on mucosal barrier and its role in disease prevention and therapy is summarized. First, the relevant terms 'intestinal barrier' and 'intestinal ...

Vitamin D is one of the most important elements for our health. Russian gastroenterologist Yelena Mironova explains how it affects the ...

Food allergies can be life-threatening due to the rapid and exaggerated immune response. While mucosal mast cells (MMCs) are excessively proliferated during food allergies, the precise mechanisms that ...

Objective The pathogenesis of UC relates to gut microbiota dysbiosis. We postulate that alterations in the viral community populating the intestinal mucosa play an important role in UC pathogenesis.

Plp1 is the most specific and widely expressed marker of enteric glia in human and mouse colonic mucosa. Supplementary Figure 2. S100B, SOX10, PLP1, and GFAP expression across the radial axis of the ...

Other things that could cause an increase in lactose intolerance include infections, inflammatory or autoimmune diseases like ...

Cell-cell interactions help drive tolerogenic or inflammatory responses to the maelstrom of antigens passing through the gut.