Villi are small epithelial protrusions that serve to increase the surface area of the gut for efficient nutrient absorption. The mechanism of their formation during development was recently revealed ...

Chorionic villus sampling is a prenatal diagnostic test performed for prenatal genetic testing involving a biopsy of placental tissue between 10 to 13 weeks gestation. The tissue harvested is the ...

The principles guiding the growth of intestinal structures called villi are surprisingly similar across chickens, frogs, mice, and snakes. The wrinkling of the inner gut, the researchers found, is ...

Paneth cells reside in the stem-cell compartments of the small bowel and fuel the activity of stem cells. Yilmaz and coworkers 1 have recently found that Paneth cells sense the nutritional state in ...

While this image might look like a multicolored tile floor, it is actually a cross section through the fingerlike bumps on the intestinal wall called villi. The cells within the villi, which you can ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): In a significant medical milestone, the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at AIIMS Bhopal successfully performed its first Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) procedure on ...