Dietary carbohydrates are ultimately absorbed in the small intestine as monosaccharides, primarily d-glucose, through a coordinated interplay of specialised transport proteins and cellular processes.

The digestion of dietary lipids is a multistage process that begins in the stomach with the action of gastric lipase on triacylglycerols, continues in the small intestine with bile salt–mediated ...

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A team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center (The Institute) has made a landmark discovery that sheds light on how the immune system protects the gut during ...