Inflammatory cues modulate goblet cell products important for intestinal barrier function
Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 03:30
in Biology & Nature
In a paper published in the December 2011 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, a team of scientists at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign led by Rex Gaskins, PhD have demonstrated that both microbial and host inflammatory factors modulate sulfomucin production in a human cell line, LS174T, that models intestinal goblet cells.