Paneth cell

<p>May 09, 2015 06:39 PM &nbsp;named for Joseph Paneth &nbsp;(Austria 19th century)</p>

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along with goblets, enterocytes, and enteroendocrine cells...

these are the principal cell types of the epitheliumof the sm intestine.</p>

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located just below the intest. stem cells in the crypts of Lieberkuhn</p>

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they have large eosinophilic granules in most of their cytoplasm.</p>

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granulus are anti-microbial... &nbsp;important in immunity and host-defense.</p>

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Sm intest crypts house stem cells that const. replenish epithelial cells that die in the villi.</p>

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these cells defend epi cells renewal.</p>