Intestinal stem cells may give rise to all of the following terminally differentiated cell types in the intestinal epithelium except _______ cells.

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Intestinal stem cells give rise to absorptive epithelial, goblet, and enteroendocrine cells, but not transit-amplifying cells. Transit-amplifying cells are the immediate progeny of intestinal stem cells and are responsible for amplifying the cell population before differentiating into the various cell types.

Intestinal Stem Cells May Give Rise to All of the Following