Villous atrophy occurs when your intestinal villi—the microscopic, finger-like tentacles that line the wall of your small intestine—erode away, leaving a virtually flat surface. Celiac disease, an ...

Intestinal villi (singular: villus)are tiny, finger-like projections that line the interior (lumen) of the small intestine. The primary function of villi is to absorb nutrients from food and transfer ...

In its early life, the placenta is called a chorion because it is formed from ... help it implant in the wall of the uterus. Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is, therefore, an early test - it ...

Recent studies have characterized the transcriptional profile of the first trimester (T1) placenta; however, the phenotypic and functional diversity of chorionic villous immune cells at term (T3) ...

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1 Cancer Research UK Colorectal Cancer Unit, St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ, UK 2 Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy, St Mark’s Hospital Most colon cancers are assumed to have a premalignant ...