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...

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...

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...

phase, the gastric phase, and the intestinal phase. The first stage, the cephalic phase of digestion, begins with secretions from gastric glands in response...

number than the other gastric glands and are more shallowly positioned in the mucosa. There are two kinds - either simple tubular glands with short ducts or...

by different exocrine glands including salivary glands, gastric glands, secretory cells in the pancreas, and secretory glands in the small intestine...

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...

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...

system. Mucous gland metaplasia, the reversible replacement of differentiated cells, occurs in the setting of severe damage of the gastric glands, which then...

Brunner's glands (or duodenal glands) are compound tubuloalveolar submucosal glands found in that portion of the duodenum proximal to the hepatopancreatic...

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...

maltase, lactase and intestinal lipase. This is in contrast to the gastric glands of the stomach where chief cells secrete pepsinogen. Also, new epithelium...

the underlying epithelial cell layer and the gastric pits where they colonise and live in the gastric glands. Occasionally the bacteria are found inside...

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...

celiac ganglion. Under microscopy, the pylorus contains numerous glands, including gastric pits, which constitute about half the depth of the pyloric mucosa...

stratified squamous epithelium gradually accumulates sebaceous and apocrine glands.: 285  During puberty, as testosterone triggers androgenic hair growth on...

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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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...

enteroendocrine cells in the gastric glands. Gastrin is a hormone produced by enteroendocrine G cells in the pyloric glands. All three of these stimulate...

examples include:[citation needed] Endometrium: the mucosa of the uterus Gastric mucosa Intestinal mucosa Nasal mucosa Olfactory mucosa Oral mucosa Penile...

types of glands, with mucus-secreting esophageal glands being found in the submucosa and esophageal cardiac glands, similar to cardiac glands of the stomach...

lubrication.[citation needed] Esophageal cardiac glands- mucous glands located near the cardiac orifice (esophago-gastric junction) in the lamina propria mucosae...

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...

Discourse on Glands in [Various] Species] (in Latin). Wittenberg, (Germany): Martin Schultz. p. 12. On page 12, Loss states that some glands are located...

ISBN 978-0195151732. - Digestive System: Alimentary Canal: fundic stomach, gastric glands, lumen" McDole; et al. (2012). "Goblet cells deliver luminal antigen...

gastrointestinal tract plus the accessory organs of digestion (the tongue, salivary glands, pancreas, liver and gallbladder). The tract may also be divided into foregut...

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...

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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