Gastric glands are glands in the lining of the stomach that play an essential role in the process of digestion. Their secretions make up the digestive...
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ducts of the gastric glands, and at the bottom of each may be seen one or more minute orifices, the openings of the gland tubes. Gastric glands are simple...
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Gastric acid or stomach acid is the acidic component – hydrochloric acid of gastric juice, produced by parietal cells in the gastric glands of the stomach...
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Human digestive system (redirect from Accessory digestive gland)
phase, the gastric phase, and the intestinal phase. The first stage, the cephalic phase of digestion, begins with secretions from gastric glands in response...
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Digestive enzyme (redirect from Gastric enzymes)
by different exocrine glands including salivary glands, gastric glands, secretory cells in the pancreas, and secretory glands in the small intestine...
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Gastric pits are indentations in the stomach which denote entrances to 3-5 tubular gastric glands. They are deeper in the pylorus than they are in the...
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A gastric chief cell, peptic cell, or gastric zymogenic cell is a type of gastric gland cell that releases pepsinogen and gastric lipase. It is the cell...
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Gastritis (redirect from Gastric catarrh)
system. Mucous gland metaplasia, the reversible replacement of differentiated cells, occurs in the setting of severe damage of the gastric glands, which then...
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Brunner's glands (or duodenal glands) are compound tubuloalveolar submucosal glands found in that portion of the duodenum proximal to the hepatopancreatic...
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Pylorus (redirect from Gastric antrum)
celiac ganglion. Under microscopy, the pylorus contains numerous glands, including gastric pits, which constitute about half the depth of the pyloric mucosa...
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maltase, lactase and intestinal lipase. This is in contrast to the gastric glands of the stomach where chief cells secrete pepsinogen. Also, new epithelium...
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components as a mammalian stomach. It contains glands that secrete HCl and pepsinogen. The gastric glands of birds only have one type of cell that produces...
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Parietal cell (redirect from Parietal cells, gastric)
hydrochloric acid (HCl) and intrinsic factor. These cells are located in the gastric glands found in the lining of the fundus and body regions of the stomach. They...
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Gastrointestinal wall (redirect from Gastric wall)
stomach, the epithelium is simple columnar, and is organised into gastric pits and glands to deal with secretion. In the small intestine, epithelium is simple...
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the underlying epithelial cell layer and the gastric pits where they colonise and live in the gastric glands. Occasionally the bacteria are found inside...
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stratified squamous epithelium gradually accumulates sebaceous and apocrine glands.: 285 During puberty, as testosterone triggers androgenic hair growth on...
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Cecum (redirect from Gastric caeca)
Microanatomy Gastric pits Gastric glands Cardiac glands Fundic glands Pyloric glands Foveolar cells Parietal cells Gastric chief cells Enterochromaffin-like...
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Phases of digestion (redirect from Gastric phase)
enteroendocrine cells in the gastric glands. Gastrin is a hormone produced by enteroendocrine G cells in the pyloric glands. All three of these stimulate...
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lubrication.[citation needed] Esophageal cardiac glands- mucous glands located near the cardiac orifice (esophago-gastric junction) in the lamina propria mucosae...
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nature of gastric acid. These cells line the gastric mucosa and the gastric pits. Mucous neck cells are found in the necks of the gastric glands. The mucus-secreting...
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Esophagus (section Reducing gastric reflux)
types of glands, with mucus-secreting esophageal glands being found in the submucosa and esophageal cardiac glands, similar to cardiac glands of the stomach...
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examples include:[citation needed] Endometrium: the mucosa of the uterus Gastric mucosa Intestinal mucosa Nasal mucosa Olfactory mucosa Oral mucosa Penile...
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Peyer's patch (redirect from Peyer's glands)
Discourse on Glands in [Various] Species] (in Latin). Wittenberg, (Germany): Martin Schultz. p. 12. On page 12, Loss states that some glands are located...
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The gastric folds (or gastric rugae) are coiled sections of tissue that exist in the mucosal and submucosal layers of the stomach. They provide elasticity...
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ISBN 978-0195151732. - Digestive System: Alimentary Canal: fundic stomach, gastric glands, lumen" McDole; et al. (2012). "Goblet cells deliver luminal antigen...
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a process known as peristalsis. The jejunum contains very few Brunner's glands (found in the duodenum) or Peyer's patches (found in the ileum). However...
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gastric glands of the gastric mucosa beneath the epithelium, in particular in the vicinity of parietal cells, that aid in the production of gastric acid...
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submucosa, muscularis externa, and adventitia. Glands line the duodenum, known as Brunner's glands, which secrete mucus and bicarbonate in order to...
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with atrophy. H&E 10x; square 20x. Fundic-corporal gastric mucosa with extensive loss of gastric glands, partially replaced by pseudo-pyloric metaplasia...
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