In addition, the data showed that the gut's hormone -
producing enteroendocrine cells (EECs)-- long divided into subsets based on the idea that each only expressed a single hormone — can actually express multiple hormones at once.
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.