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goblet cell
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gob·let cell (gblt)
n.
A mucus-secreting epithelial cell that distends with mucin before secretion and collapses to a goblet shape after secretion. Also called beaker cell.
goblet cell
solitary mucus-secreting cell, especially of the intestinal and respiratory epithelium.
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The specimen also contained numerous goblet cells and a few islands of squamous epithelium.
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Adler, a cell biologist at the College of Veterinary Medicine of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and his colleagues suggested that MARCKS binds to tough sacs inside goblet cells and stimulates release of the mucus stored there.
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In the exposed subjects, goblet cells increased up to 54% of all epithelial cells (Figure 3).
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