Sentences with phrase «from goblet cells»

It causes intestinal hyper - motility and extremely rapid gut transit time, with partially digested food reaching the large bowel and the associated overproduction of gelatinous mucus from goblet cells of the gut lining (an innate protective mechanism in the gut).

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In goblet cell metaplasia, exposure to allergens such as pollen, mold and dust mites initiates a series of biochemical reactions that causes the cells that line the air passages of the lungs to change from their normal state into so - called «goblet cells,» which produce substantial amounts of excess mucus.

Healthy individuals» lungs contain very few goblet cells, but patients who die from asthma — an estimated 5,000 people annually — have significantly higher numbers of these cells.

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.

Unlike the type I cervix, whose mucus comes from glands in its crypts, type I rectum is lubricated by goblet cells.

J, Hematoxylin and eosin staining of teratoma sections generated from integration - free iPSC lines showing differentiation in three germ layers: goblet cells in gastro - intestinal (GI) tract (endoderm); neural rosettes (ectoderm) and blood vessels, muscle and cartilage / bone (mesoderm).