The intestinal epithelium is a highly dynamic barrier that regulates digestion, absorption, immune responses, and communication between the gut microbiota and the nervous system.

Dysregulation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mtROS) contributes to intestinal tumorigenesis. Here the authors report that excessive mtROS induces the release of mitochondrial PGAM5 into ...

This is an important and solid study that examines the role of TFAM, a protein that helps maintain mtDNA, in mtDNA mutator mice. The authors have demonstrated that TFAM's counteractive role in mtDNA ...

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to the marine environment. Special emphasis is on biological responses to temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate ...

The research is published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. This is the first time people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) have been given a drink with ketone esters—a supplement that is meant to ...

He is a native English speaker. A blood test that accurately detects colon cancer in middle-aged and older people and also rules it out when it is not present can help to increase the rate of ...

How you feel after your bowel (colon) cancer operation depends on what type of surgery you have. After a big operation, you might wake up in the intensive care unit (ICU) or high dependency unit (HDU) ...

To bridge this gap, KL Krems' Division of Physiology embarked on a comprehensive study to explore cellular pathophysiological mechanisms of mutations in these genes. "What makes this discovery ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...

Colon cancer cases are soaring in young people, alarming experts and leaving doctors scrambling for answers as to why. Now, a study published by a team of international researchers in the journal ...

She was later an Air Force officer. By Clay Risen Nancy Leftenant-Colon, a granddaughter of enslaved people who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces ...