In a recent study, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have provided new insights into the central role of goblet cells—specialized cells that line the gut—in maintaining a ...
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 ...
mucins (MUC1 and MUC4) and antioxidants are present in milk at higher levels than those in the circulation. Generally speaking, there is considerable functional redundancy and many of these ...