In CeD patients, gluten-dependent increased intestinal permeability is a paradigm of the disease, priming and perpetrating intestinal damage on a gluten-containing diet. Zonulin is a gastrointestinal ...

In contrast, serum zonulin levels showed no association with disease activity or treatment response, arguing against a strict correlation between intestinal permeability and disease activity in axSpA.

Data are accumulating that emphasize the important role of the intestinal barrier and intestinal permeability for health and disease. However, these terms are poorly defined, their assessment is a ...

Using a multi-strain probiotic formulation, researchers conducted a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial aimed at improving psychiatric and cognitive symptoms, intestinal permeability, ...

Given the complexity of both cell signalling events and intracellular structures involved in the zonulin system, it is not surprising that this pathway ... two autoimmune conditions in which the ...

The goal of this review is to describe barrier function of the intestine, the structure of the tight junction, methods to evaluate intestinal permeability, and most importantly the relevance of ...

Intestinal villi (singular: villus)are tiny, finger-like projections that line the interior (lumen) of the small intestine. The primary function of villi is to absorb nutrients from food and transfer ...

Hunger is an ancestral and evolutionary survival instinct; its importance is evident in the complex and redundant pathways involving all five senses that regulate it. 1,2 Historically, when humans ...

Additionally, albendazole is not effective against Strongyloides stercoralis, another helminth that has been added to the list of intestinal parasites requiring control measures. To address these ...

Villous atrophy occurs when your intestinal villi—the microscopic, finger-like tentacles that line the wall of your small intestine—erode away, leaving a virtually flat surface. Celiac disease, an ...