Sentences with phrase «damaged intestinal mucosa»

They fed 100 mg of berberine or a placebo to rats for several weeks and noted that «berberine treatment not only augments GLP2 secretion and improves diabetes, but is also effective in repairing the damaged intestinal mucosa, restoring intestinal permeability and improving endotoxemia».

Hookworms can cause a number of difficulties for the infected animal including anemia since these worms feed off the animal's blood by damaging the intestinal mucosa.

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GALT interacts strictly with gastrointestinal functions in a dynamic manner; for instance, by increasing intestinal permeability in replay to particular stimulations, or orientating the immune response towards luminal content, allowing either tolerance or elimination / degradation of luminal antigens, or sometimes provoking damage to the intestinal mucosa, such as in coeliac disease or food allergy.

Celiac disease is characterized by diffuse damage to the proximal small intestinal mucosa that results in malabsorption of most nutrients.

The diseased intestinal mucosa is believed to place a high demand on glutamine as the body tries to heal the damage done to the intestine.

There is some evidence that orally administered curcumin may even help protect intestinal mucosa in the gastrointestinal tract against oxidative DNA damage.