Scientists have discovered a new human organ. The mesentery — a fold of the peritoneum that connects the intestine to the abdomen — was once thought to be made up of multiple separate parts. Research ...

Over a century ago, when scientists were classifying the body’s organs, one was short shrifted, according to researchers who say part of the digestive system deserves to be upgraded to organ status.

Discover the role of the human body mesentery: a single band of tissue vital for digestive health and organ classification. To the 78 organs that make up the human body, a group of scientists says we ...

Who knew that you would wake up one day, only to find that you have 79 organs – rather than the 78 you went to sleep with? It didn't exactly happen this way, but the classification of the mesentery as ...

An Irish surgeon's breakthrough overturned more than a century of medical belief and may lead to improvements in digestive surgery and recovery. The mesentery, it turns out, is one connected organ, ...

Patient 1 was a 53-year old Caucasian female who presented with complaints of low back discomfort. She gave a medical history of self-induced abortion at 6 months’ gestation, complicated by pelvic ...

Named as the mesentery, the organ connects the intestine to the abdomen. London: Irish scientists have recently identified a new human organ that has existed in the digestive system for hundreds of ...

Quick, point to your mesentery. If you aren’t quite sure where it is, or what it is, you are not alone. However, this piece of your digestive tract is getting a lot of attention lately, as some ...

Drug delivery systems can alter drug clearance from the peritoneal cavity and drug toxicity profiles. For example, IP injection of cisplatin-loaded polymeric microspheres (100–200 µm, which releases ...