What are the different types of Gastric glands and what are their positions in stomach ?
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22nd Mar, 2020
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Gastric gland are of many types each having their own role and found in different positions within the stomach.
The different glands and their distribution is as follows :
1) Cardiac Part : Mucous Neck Cells are present here which secrete mucous.
2)Fundic/Gastric part : Four Types of Cells are found here
- Peptic/Zymogenic/Chief/Central Cells : Secrete proenzymes pepsinogen and prorennin. Smaal amount of gastric lipase is also produced.
- Oxyntic/Parietal cells : Secrete HCL and Castle's Intrinsic factor required for vit B12 absorption.
- Mucous Neck Cells : Secrete alkaline mucous.
- Argentaffin/Enterochromaffin/Kultchitsky Cells : Secrete vasoconstrictor serotonin and vasodilator histamine.
3)Pyloric part :
- Mucous Neck cells : Secrete mucous
- G Cells : Secrete Gastric which i ncreases gastric motility and stimulates gastric juice secretion by gastric glans.
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