Foregut tumors lack the decarboxylase enzyme necessary to convert 5-hydroxytryptophan to serotonin, resulting in minimal to no elevation in urinary 5-HIAA levels.
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Initially, the gut tube from the caudal end of the foregut to the end of the hindgut is suspended from the dorsal body wall by dorsal mesentery.
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Initially the cephalic end is in open communication with the foregut but eventually it becomes separated by indentations of mesoderm, the "'tracheoesophageal folds " '.
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In 1950, he published a paper in which he described the oesophagus as " " that part of the foregut, oesophageal strictures in patients with this condition.
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These low emissions are partly explained by the anatomical differences between the macropodid digestive system and that of ruminants, resulting in shorter retention times of particulate digesta within the foregut.
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Food is enveloped by this part of the gut as it arrives from the foregut by the peritrophic membrane which is a mucopolysaccharide layer secreted from the midgut s epithelial cells.
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When the tracheoesphageal folds fuse in the midline to form the "'tracheoesophageal septum "', the foregut is divided into trachea ventrally and the esophagus dorsally.
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While the " C . variipennis " is orally infected with the Bluetongue virus, the anterior and posterior midgut and the foregut / midgut junction cells show infection.
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It has numerous applications in the experimental induction of stem cell differentiation; amongst these are the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to posterior foregut lineages and also to functional motor neurons.
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Alternately, the foregut may expand into a very enlarged crop and proventriculus, or the crop could just be a diverticulum, or fluid filled structure, as in some Diptera species.