Digestive System

The digestive system is responsible for ingestion and digestion of food, absorption of nutrients, and elimination of undigested material. It is typically divided into two parts, the digestive tract (alimentary canal), and the accessory digestive organs. Food is digested and absorbed as it passes through digestive tract, from the oral cavity (mouth) to the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine, with the help of accessory digestive organs such as salivary glands, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.

We prepared primary digestive system cells freshly isolated and cryopreserved at early stage for the research of their role and functions in digestive system. These cells of digestive system include epithelial cells, fibroblast, macrophage from colon, esophagus, gallbladder, gingiva, oral mucosa, pancreatic duct, small intestine, parotid gland, peritoneum, as well as liver cells such as hepatocytes (human hepatocytes, rat hepatocytes, and mouse hepatocytes), hepatic stellate cells, hepatic kupffer cells, hepatic macrophages, etc.