Your gut senses the difference between real sugar and artificial sweetener

By Karl Bates
A section of mouse intestines shows in green the relatively scarce neuropod cells in the epithelium that are responsible for communicating conditions inside the gut to the nervous system outside.

A section of mouse intestines shows in green the relatively scarce neuropod cells in the epithelium that are responsible for communicating conditions inside the gut to the nervous system outside. (Borhoquez Lab, Duke)

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