digestive/alimentary system
• by 6 weeks after treatment cystic vesicles persist and are often filled with mucous and detritus
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• an excess of Paneth cells are found by 19-62 weeks after treatment and these cells contain an abnormally abundant number of normal looking secretory granules
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• 4 weeks after treatment with tamoxifen a low level of excess mucous secretion is seen
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• by 6 weeks after treatment dying Paneth cells are commonly seen
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cellular
• recombined cells fail to migrate out of the crypts and up the villi in the intestine
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endocrine/exocrine glands
• by 6 weeks after treatment cystic vesicles persist and are often filled with mucous and detritus
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• an excess of Paneth cells are found by 19-62 weeks after treatment and these cells contain an abnormally abundant number of normal looking secretory granules
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