Intestinal tissue section © Charité | Luisa Barleben (IMAGE)

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Intestinal tissue section © Charité | Luisa Barleben

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The gut brain influences the composition of the intestinal barrier via the messenger molecule VIP. When it is absent, certain cell types appear more frequently at the gut surface, as this tissue section (mouse model) shows: tuft cells (red), mucus-producing goblet cells (yellow), Paneth cells (pink), and stem cells (green). © Charité | Luisa Barleben

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