Goblet cells are the most numerous among the secretory cell types lining the mucosal surface. Enteroendocrine cells secrete hormonal products, they regulate intestinal motility, satiety ...

They are densest at the beginning of the small intestine and begin to thin out toward the end. Covering the surface of each villus are mucus membranes made up of two types of cells: goblet cells ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have analyzed the molecular crosstalk between pain fibers in the gut and goblet cells that line the walls of the intestine. The work shows that chemical signals ...