Sentences with phrase «goblet cells secrete»
Goblet cells secrete the principal constituents of mucus.
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Along with intestinal stem cells, the team identified differentiated nutrient - digesting and absorbing enterocytes, mucus - producing Goblet cells, hormone - secreting enteroendocrine cells, and microbiome - regulating and sensing Paneth cells, and they performed a series of assays that confirmed their functions.
These range from those that are very similar to the acid - secreting glands of the stomach to those that look like intestinal crypts — indeed intestinalisation (defined by the presence of mucin secreting goblet cells), is diagnostic for Barrett's in some countries.