In June, USA TODAY highlighted the flow of marijuana from Colorado into small towns across Nebraska: felony drug arrests in Chappell, Neb., just 7 miles north of the Colorado border have skyrocketed 400% in three years.
Intestinal Absorptive Cells. Absorptive cells, or enterocytes, are the predominant epithelial cell type lining the lumen of the small intestine and colon. These cells are specialized for absorption of nutrients across the apical plasma membrane and export of these same nutrients across the basal plasma membrane.
ORGANS. TISSUES. Epithelial cells are highly specialized cells that line the small intestine. They help with the process of absorption of water, glucose molecules and mineral ions. The cells surface if highly folded, since this greatly increases the surface area of the cell.nderstanding how the small intestine functions requires looking at the structure of the mucosa in more detail. A light microscope view of epithelial cells from the small intestine. Magnification x 1000. EPITHELIAL CELL DYNAMICS.