1.   The intestinal mucosa protects the body from a large reservoir of intraluminal pathogenic bacteria and endotoxins.

2.   No measurements of protein synthesis in individual tissues or intestinal mucosa were carried out in these studies, however.

3.   The pepsin trypsin digest of the wheat prolamin gliadin is deleterious to the small intestinal mucosa of coeliac patients.

4.   Wright et al have described EGF secreting lineages containing neutral mucin arising beside ulcerated intestinal mucosa.

5.   Within the intestinal mucosa, expression of T cell mediated immunity to gliadin in the gut occurs across a spectrum of histological and functional abnormalities.

6.   Peptide YY and enteroglucagon are hormonal peptides found in endocrine cells of the distal intestinal mucosa.

7.   In small intestinal mucosa homogenates from patients who had not been treated the increased basal adenylate cyclase activity, reported also by others.