Does magnetic resonance imaging detect intestinal barrier dysfunction in a rat model of acute mesenteric ischemia/reperfusion injury?
This novel MRI-based intestinal permeability assay has shown a significant increase in the signal intensity in liver, kidney, and plasma samples that correlated with mucosal barrier defects in experimental models of acute mesenteric I/R.
Our results clearly show that plants growing in communities of varying species richness and composition differ in their defensive chemistry, which may modulate plant susceptibility to enemy attack and consequently their interactions with higher trophic level organisms.