The mucosal layer in the small intestine degrades with age in rats, allowing digestive enzymes to slowly escape and leak into organs outside the intestine, including the liver, lung, heart ...

Effective treatment of many debilitating diseases without side effects could occur by delivering drugs more efficiently to underlying mucosal layers in a controlled manner. Impact of Mucosal ...

The five echo layers are histologically correlated with the mucosa [layer 1], muscularis mucosa [layer 2], submucosa [layer 3], muscularis propria [layer 4], and serosa or adventitia [layer 5 ...

When Jeffrey Lipow went in for a routine endoscopy, it revealed a serious problem. A follow-up endoscopic ultrasound confirmed he had a tumor under ...

T1 means the tumour has started to grow into the wall of the stomach. It’s divided into T1a and T1b: T1a means the tumour is within the inner layers of the stomach (the mucosa) T1b means the tumour ...