A study by the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and the University of Bonn has shown that pH value is ...

The African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei is a unicellular pathogen that causes lethal sleeping sickness in humans, which is a devastating and neglected tropical disease that is endemic to vast ...

Some of the most intractable gastrointestinal disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease, are motility disorders, where the contents of the intestines don’t proceed ...

A study by scientists at Harvard Medical School and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has revealed how a pressure-sensitive protein, PIEZO1, helps regulate intestinal motility and control ...

Until now, a pathogen’s ability to move through the body has been overlooked as a possible trigger of immune response, but new research has found that motility will indeed alarm the host and activate ...

Esophageal motility disorders occur more frequently among adults aged 75 years and older. Individuals aged 75 years and older have a higher prevalence of esophageal motility disorders, particularly ...

Announcing a new publication for Acta Materia Medica journal. Gastrointestinal motility disorders (GIMDs) are characterized by impaired gastrointestinal motility. The prevention and treatment of GIMDs ...

New insight on the molecular mechanisms that allow malaria parasites to move and spread disease within their hosts has just been published. The first X-ray structures of the molecular complex that ...

Research conducted in the University of Helsinki may help in developing specific inhibitors that would slow down actin-dependent movement of cancer cells. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) produced by ...