After your pancreas and other organs are removed, your surgeon will reconnect your stomach and the rest of your bile duct to the second part of your intestine — the jejunum. This connection will ...

Secretin, a peptide hormone comprising 27 amino acids, is secreted by the entero-endocrine S-cells of the duodenum and jejunum. It stimulates the production and release of bicarbonate ions by the ...

Dilatation of the jejunum was present. Pancreatic enzymes were deficient, fat absorption impaired, and the vitamin A tolerance curve flat. The glucose-tolerance curve showed a hyperglycemia, ...

moving food through and mixing it with enzymes from the pancreas and bile from the liver. The duodenum is largely responsible for the continuing breakdown of food. The jejunum and ileum are mainly ...

The small intestine is made up of the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum ... transported to the intestine from other organs such as the pancreas and liver. Where absorption takes place depends on ...

In the liver, jejunum, pancreas, and kidney, protein synthesis rates in all fed groups were higher than those in the fasted pigs (P < 0.05; Figure 3).

However, a colleague suggested amifostine could protect the duodenum, which feeds into the jejunum, allowing oncologists to give higher doses of radiation to target pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic ...

Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is a disorder usually caused by a gastrinoma, which is a kind of tumor that occurs mainly in the pancreas and excretes gastric acid. Symptoms include upper abdominal ...

Song et al. Travel of a mis-swallowed long spoon to the jejunum. World Journal of Gastroenterology , 2009; 15 (39): 4984 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.4984 Cite This Page : ...