Seeing bright red blood in your stool can be unsettling. But don’t panic just yet. Understanding what causes blood in stool ...

Discus and some other cichlids produce mucus secretions to feed their fry. But why do they do it and what's in their mucus that helps the fry to grow? Discus and several other South American cichlids, ...

Compared to the participants with normal bowel movements, the full-adjusted depression model ORs for ... consists of 4 questions about the frequency of different types of bowel leakage, including gas, ...

Southwest United Graduate School, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Cell Metabolism and Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources in Yunnan, Center for Life Sciences, ...

Intestinal epithelial cells are stimulated by the gut microbiota to express Chi3l1. Once expressed, Chi3l1 is secreted into the mucus layer where it interacts with the gut microbiota, specifically ...

Showing off her tiny waist as she leaned one palm on a spare stool behind her, Jenna wore lightweight makeup for a sunkissed finish, keeping her look low-key and casual. Sporting her dark locks swept ...

A normal bowel movement consists of well-formed ... such as colon cancer or colon blockage. Blood or significant mucus in stool, frequent diarrhea or constipation, and pale stool are also red flags of ...

By giving the antibiotic vancomycin to normal and 'bacteria-free' mice, the researchers were able to show that this antibiotic can act directly on the mucus barrier, independent of the gut bacteria.

Physicists have created the first two-dimensional version of the Bose glass, a novel phase of matter that challenges statistical mechanics. Physicists from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge ...

Image Source : SOCIAL MEDIA Rahul Gandhi at at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, who is currently on a visit to the United States, goofed up the full form ...

As part of the digestive process, the intestines secrete a gel-like mucus to lubricate the intestinal walls and ease the ...