English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Free Plan

The human intestine has the dual role of allowing absorption of nutrients while also acting as a barrier to prevent pathogens and toxins from entering the body and potentially causing disease. In the immature infant intestine this barrier is underdeveloped and large quantities of macromolecules cross the epithelium into systematic circulation. Consequently infants are susceptible to conditions such as infectious diarrhoea, necrotising enterocolitis and allergic gastroenteropathy (Schreiber & Walker, 1988). It is essential that the infant intestinal barrier matures appropriately because barrier dysfunction in adulthood is a critical factor in predisposition to intestinal diseases (Groschwitz & Hogan, 2009) and is associated with autoimmune diseases in other parts of the body (Cereijido et al., 2007).

The Role of Intestinal Barrier Function in Early Life in the Development of Colitis