The number of organs in our body has just increased to 79, with the change in status of the mesentery, a partition that connects the intestine to the abdominal wall, which has just been promoted to the rank of organ following work. by researchers from Limerick University Hospital, Ireland, published in The Lancet.
Until now, scientists thought that this small septum was an assembly of connective tissues. They have therefore just decreed that it is in fact one and the same body.
We don’t really know what it is for
But now that it has obtained this new status of “79th organ of the human body”, it will be necessary to discover what its precise physiological function is, in short to understand what it is used for exactly.
The mesentery could indeed play a role in certain abdominal or digestive diseases.
Tea #mesentery as an organ in its own right: its structure, function, and role in #gastrointestinal disease https://t.co/A21oa8vetk#freepic.twitter.com/yNMHswVLoD
– Lancet Gastro & Hep (@LancetGastroHep) January 4, 2017
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