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 ...
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 ...