Villi are tiny, hair-like projections and tissues composed of the cells lining your small intestine's inside walls. They ...

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 ... Biology in the ...

Villi of the small mouse intestine. The dots and lines represent cellular networks. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

the small intestine undergoes several invaginations, where the small bowel becomes ensheathed. The result is formation of multiple villi and microvilli. Intestinal villi, with their branching ...

It is always fascinating. DR CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN:What you couldn't see is that inside the small intestine are tiny villi, which are finger like projections which increase the surface area ...

The epithelial lining of our intestine is organized in a crypt-villi architecture and serves many essential ... differentiated cells (e.g., lysozyme producing Paneth cells in the small intestine) and ...

The researchers showed that proliferating cells from large, fresh sections from mouse small intestine could be imaged to assess cell turnover in the villi (Fig. 1). Figure 1: Cell proliferation in ...