administration of excess vitamin a to the growing male rats ( 50 000 iu of oily solution of retinol palmitate a day for 8 days ) provoked a tendency toward a decrease in the number of goblet cells ( of both absolute and relative number calculated per 500 cells of the epithelium ) in the crypts and villi of the small intestinal mucosa , with this tendency being more marked in the inferior part of the intestine .
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