Vaccines save millions of lives every year, but there is still an urgent need for more efficient vaccines that target pathogens transmitted through the respiratory tract and may cause fatal infections ...

The results of the first human trial examining a new weight loss procedure called gastric mucosal ablation were released Thursday, and the non-surgical procedure caused minimal side effects with a ...

Vaccines save millions of lives every year, but there is still an urgent need for more efficient vaccines. Strategies to combat serious outbreaks of viral infections are particularly important. Such ...

The term 'common mucosal immunological system' was coined by John Bienenstock nearly 40 years ago. He suggested the concept when the bronchus-associated lymphoid tissues his group described were ...

The Mucosal HIV and Immunobiology Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, established through the NIH's Digestive Diseases Research Development Center program, offers a unique opportunity ...

Dozens of intranasally delivered vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 are in development. Could they pave the way for widespread nasal vaccination in the future? A series of rodent experiments showed that ...

pylori infection. Magnifying endoscopy can reveal more precisely the abnormal mucosal patterns in an H. pylori-infected stomach; however, it requires more training, expertise, and time.

Endogenex said the study "demonstrates substantial and durable reduction in insulin resistance and improvement in beta cell ...

Antibodies in milk are either transferred from plasma by transudation or locally produced by cells that migrate to the mammary gland from other mucosal sites. [16] Breast milk contains high ...

Duodenal mucosal resurfacing (DMR), a new-style endoscopic procedure using hydrothermal energy to ablate this thickened layer ...