The midgut is the portion of the human embryo from which most of the intestines develop. After it bends around the superior mesenteric artery, it is called...

oropharyngeal membrane to the cloacal membrane and is divided into the foregut, midgut, and hindgut. At the end of the third week, the neural tube, which is a...

largely unharmed. Studies have also shown that maggots kill bacteria. Three midgut lysozymes of L. sericata have antibacterial effects in maggot debridement...

appendix are derived from the bud of cecum that forms during week 6 in the midgut next to the apex of the umbilical herniation. Specifically, the cecum and...

Intestinal malrotation is a congenital anomaly of rotation of the midgut. It occurs during the first trimester as the fetal gut undergoes a complex series...

accessory pancreatic duct. The junction between the embryological foregut and midgut lies just below the major duodenal papilla.: 274  The third part, or horizontal...

transport vessels of plants. Once food leaves the crop, it passes to the midgut, where the majority of digestion takes place. Microscopic projections, microvilli...

pancreas, liver and gallbladder). The tract may also be divided into foregut, midgut, and hindgut, reflecting the embryological origin of each segment. The whole...

mostly in the anterior midgut, although in predatory groups like the Carabidae, most digestion occurs in the crop by means of midgut enzymes. In the Elateridae...

in a specialized midgut that quickly transports ions to the lumen (midgut cavity), to keep the potassium level higher in the midgut cavity than in the...

Strangulation Gangrene Perforation Faecal peritonitis Recurrent volvulus Midgut volvulus occurs in people (usually babies) that are predisposed because...

secretory granules of Paneth cells. The small intestine develops from the midgut of the primitive gut tube. By the fifth week of embryological life, the...

in the midgut is hypothesised to increase resistance to entomopathogenic bacteria in the beetle larvae. Trypsin-like enzymes from the midgut of M. melolontha...

female sand flies to undergo a shift in abdominal midgut pH. Even though the pH of the abdominal midgut is alkaline, carbohydrate digestion is able to function...

sphincter, a muscular door of sorts that separates it from the midgut.: 557  The midgut is composed of a short stomach a long intestinal tube.: 557  Connected...

omphalomesenteric duct, is a long narrow tube that joins the yolk sac to the midgut lumen of the developing fetus. It appears at the end of the fourth week...

enzymes may more likely be near the end of the midgut, and absorption near the origin or beginning of the midgut.: 32  In the wingless (apterygote) orders...

non-cellular structure which surrounds the food bolus in an organism's midgut. Although they are often found in insects, peritrophic matrixes are found...

into foregut, midgut, and hindgut regions based on the respective blood supply. The foregut is supplied by the celiac trunk, the midgut is supplied by...

The midgut is short and straight, with the hindgut being longer and coiled. Ancestors of lepidopteran species, stemming from Hymenoptera, had midgut ceca...

week of gestation the umbilical ring is formed. During the 6th week the midgut rapidly grows from the endoderm which causes a herniation of the gut through...

micrograph showing a malaria sporozoite migrating through the mosquito midgut epithelial cell Specialty Infectious diseases Causes Bacterial, viral, parasitic...

induce biofilm formation in the proventriculus, a valve connecting the midgut to the esophagus. The presence of this biofilm seems likely to be required...

the foregut and the midgut. The foregut and midgut of the fall webworm are alkaline, and Johnson and Felon found that the midgut pH ranged from 8.7 to...

Ventriculus can refer to: Ventricle (heart) Stomach the midgut in insects the gizzard in birds This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...

mammalian host. In the fly's midgut, the parasites transform into procyclic trypomastigotes, multiply by binary fission, leave the midgut, and transform into epimastigotes...

neutral polysaccharide, as well as lipids are released by these glands. The midgut of Bombus morio is made up of three cell types that play crucial roles in...

different genetic sequence, from the somatic ferritin. It is produced in the midgut glands and secreted into the haemolymph, whence it is transported to the...

large intestine). The vagus innervation ends at the junction between the midgut and hindgut, just before the splenic flexure of the transverse colon. The...

either duodenal atresia, duodenal web, annular pancreas, or on occasion midgut volvulus, a distinction that requires close clinical correlation and, in...