2401XX-Ogawa-Sugar-Film (VIDEO)

Kobe University

Caption

This time lapse footage shows that glucose is excreted in the “jejunum,” a part of the small intestine, and is transported from there inside the gut to the large intestine and the rectum. “This finding suggests that intestinal glucose excretion is a universal physiological phenomenon in animals,” says Kobe University endocrinologist OGAWA Wataru.

Credit

MORITA Yasuko, from Communications Medicine 2025 (DOI: 10.1038/s43856-025-00755-4)

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