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- vitamins, and bile salts. Enterocytes also have an endocrine role, secreting hormones such as leptin. The major functions of enterocytes include: Ion uptake...
- villi are covered by epithelium, which contains multiple types of cells: enterocytes (absorbing water and electrolytes), goblet cells (secreting mucus), enteroendocrine...
- The locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) is a moderately conserved pathogenicity island consisting of 35,000 base pairs in the bacteria Escherichia coli...
- reptiles, and birds. Its lining is specialized for the absorption by enterocytes of small nutrient molecules which have been previously digested by enzymes...
- 6 mm in length (in humans), and has many microvilli projecting from the enterocytes of its epithelium which collectively form the striated or brush border...
- levels are balanced by the controlled absorption of dietary iron by enterocytes, the cells that line the interior of the intestines, and the uncontrolled...
- formation of monoglycerides and fatty acids. These lipids are absorbed into enterocytes via p****ive diffusion. Inside these cells, monoglycerides and fatty acids...
- neuroendocrine promoter, is active in pancreatic islet cells, neural tissue, and enterocytes (small intestine cells) to produce the "neuroendocrine isoform" of glucokinase...
- and peptides. Absorptive cells in the small intestine are known as enterocytes, and in the colon they are known as colonocytes. The other cell types...
- tract via p****ive diffusion. Unlike retinol, β-carotene is taken up by enterocytes by the membrane transporter protein scavenger receptor B1 (SCARB1), which...