ABSTRACT
Implications ...................................................................................... 228 12.7 Mucins in Diagnosis and Therapy ................................................. 230 12.8 Epilogue............................................................................................ 232 Acknowledgments...................................................................................... 233 References .................................................................................................. 233
Historically, the term
mucin
(MUC for human and Muc for other species) was coined in reference to members of a family of large glycoproteins
representing the major structural components of the mucus.
