Sentences with phrase «colon mucus layer»

Bäckhed, Hansson, and colleagues found that a transplant of gut bacteria from a healthy mouse could undo some of the harmful changes to the colon mucus layer.

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In the colon, the mucus layer is divided into a loose outer layer that provides a suitable habitat for bacteria, allowing us to benefit from them, and an inner layer that acts as a protective barrier.

The Bäckhed study found that mice developed problems with the protective mucus layer in the colon after just 3 - 7 days of eating the low - fiber diet: this mucus layer became more penetrable and bacteria encroached upon the epithelial cells of the colon.

The final piece of this puzzle is the crucial mucus layer in the colon.

In experiments, when a dietary supplement of «friendly bacteria» were introduced to the colon of low fiber fed animals the mucus layer did actually regrow, BUT, it did not prevent the bacteria from infiltrating the mucosa into the body's cells.