A healthy digestive tract is the key to good health. The digestive process is complex and the digestive tract is designed to ...

Canadian researchers say a blood test measuring immune response to gut bacteria could help predict Crohn’s disease years ...

Gut health, antibiotic resistance, probiotics and the effects of bacteria on the immune system are specialties for Amir Mani, a new faculty member in the Department of Animal Science for the Arkansas ...

This new article publication from Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, discusses how 5S-Heudelotinone alleviates experimental colitis by shaping the immune system and enhancing the intestinal barrier in a gut ...

Trillions of microbes live in the human gastrointestinal tract, where they play critical roles in our health and biology; they can help us break down food, absorb nutrients; and they affect the immune ...

Inflammatory gut bacteria that carry proteins structurally similar to myelin may trigger the development and progression of ...

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign pathogens, these exquisitely sensitive cells somehow distinguish friend ...

The intestinal immune system can usually recognize friend from foe. But for approximately 30 million Americans with food allergies—including four million children—immune cells mistakenly identify food ...

The human gut is home to trillions of microbes that not only aid in digestion but also play a key role in shaping our immune system. These microbes communicate with the body by releasing a range of ...

Pain sensing neurons in the gut kindle inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and asthma, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine. The findings, published Jan. 7 in Nature , ...