#enterocytes

Reaching the Tip

Enterocytes, the cells lining the intestine that take up water, nutrients and minerals, migrate from the intestinal crypt to the tip of the finger-like projections called villi. Using an organoid system enriched for villus tip enterocytes, this study characterises the molecular changes that govern their unique features

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Linda Berková and colleagues

Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in EMBO Reports, July 2023

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Differentiated into Intestinal Cells

Even the liver is the main organize when it comes to the metabolization of drugs, the small intestine also plays an important role in all aspects of drug metabolism. Unfortunately, no laboratory system exists at present that serves as a standardized system for evaluating the way drugs interact with the small intestine.

A new study by Tamihide Matsubara and his colleagues from Nagoya City…