Sentences with phrase «mucous barrier»

Because the parvovirus does not use neuraminidase in its replication, you might not expect oseltamavir to have value but it turns out that neuraminidase is an important enzyme used by pathogenic bacteria invading through the protective mucous barrier of the GI tract.

The stomach and small intestines can not secrete their contents as well, the gut lining has less of a protective mucous barrier, and the small intestinal lining is exposed to food by - products at dangerously high concentration only for a lack of fluid to dilute it.

Not exact matches

A study published in Nature Communications, led by the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has found five genetic risk loci that point to the importance of skin and mucous membrane barriers and the immune system in the development of food allergies.

So you have all of that mucous membrane barrier, it's gonna be compromised throughout the body not just the gut.

Another way to strengthen the intestinal lining is to thicken the protective mucosal barrier known as the mucous layer.

Our mucous membrane is our primary immune defense barrier that protects our insides from the outside world.