During the holiday season, the Christmas tree isn't the only thing I love decorating. While picking ornaments is always a ...

Evidence for coexpression of mucins and trefoil peptides has been suggested in numerous gastrointestinal mucosal pathologies. The ulcer associated cell lineage (UACL) occurs at sites of chronic ...

Its key building blocks are mucins, which are long proteins decorated with complex sugars that make them look like bottlebrushes. These sugars help attract water, Dr. Boucher said, and the mucins ...

Its key building blocks are mucins, which are long proteins decorated with complex sugars that make them look like bottlebrushes. These sugars help attract water, Boucher said, and the mucins form a ...

Researchers at UC San Diego have examined the critical role of goblet cells in gut immunity and health. GCs create a mucus ...

Those new to K-beauty skincare brands can start with these affordable snail mucins to luxury creams. Your journey to glass ...

Mucins, a family of glycoproteins found in the gut's protective mucosal layer, serve as its primary nutrient source. The glycan chains attached to mucins, known as O-glycans, make up 80% of their ...

Mucus presents a formidable barrier to nanoparticle drug-delivery systems, but adding a coating of polymer molecules helps them sneak through the net. Mucus, the amorphous, sticky substance that ...

These bioadhesive polymer layers on the luminal side are bound via Ca +2 to endogenous mucins, forming a gel-like system on the tissue. Tissues with such a artifical mucin on top are shielded ...

23, 2022 — Scientists have developed a drug to treat the uncontrolled secretion of mucins in the airways, which causes potentially life-threatening symptoms in millions of Americans with lung ...