Endocrine Abstracts

Body surfaces, like the skin or the gut lumen, are protected from the outer world by a layer of epithelial cells. Almost all epithelial sensory cells communicate stimuli from the outer world to neurons via direct neurotransmission, but in the gut, the epithelial sensory cells, the enteroendocrine cell, is thought to communicate indirectly via the release of hormones.However, enteroendocrine cells have striking features of epithelial cell transducers: the...