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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...