Researchers mapped abdominal fat depots in people with obesity, finding colon-adjacent fat rich in inflammatory fat cells and ...

Investigators have identified a component in the intestine that plays a critical role in repairing damaged tissue. Investigators at Cedars-Sinai and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) ...

Abdominal fat is not a uniform tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, and ...

A method that instructs immune system cells to help repair damaged tissues in the intestine has been developed by researchers at KU Leuven and Seoul National University. This opens the way for more ...

Ischemic colitis reduces blood flow to the colon or large intestine. Mesenteric ischemia is a reduction in blood flow to the small intestine due to the narrowing of the arteries. Both conditions are ...