Goblet cell

Called the goblet cell, also goblet cell (of English. Goblet, " cup " ), is a single-celled, cup-shaped, mucus -producing gland that lies within a Epithelverbands. Goblet cells are found in the airways, as well as between the enterocytes in the cylindrical villous epithelium of the small and large intestine, where they grow in number towards the anus. You are the prototype of mucous gland cells.

You are responsible for the formation of mucus, which they give as secretion in the secretory pathway merokrinen directly to the surface. The synthesis begins in ergastoplasm. In the dictyosomes stacking and formation of Promuzingranula done ( Vorsekretkörnchen ). Underwater swells to the secretion of mucus ( mucin ) and is expelled.

  • Cell type
  • Trachea
  • Small intestine
  • Colon
  • Epithelium
  • Histology of the digestive system
  • Histology of the respiratory system
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