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What are the different types of Gastric glands and what are their positions in stomach ?


Unknown Student 22nd Mar, 2020
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Pratyay Islam 22nd Mar, 2020

Hello Student,

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

  1. Peptic/Zymogenic/Chief/Central Cells : Secrete proenzymes pepsinogen and prorennin. Smaal amount of gastric lipase is also produced.
  2. Oxyntic/Parietal cells : Secrete HCL and Castle's Intrinsic factor required for vit B12 absorption.
  3. Mucous Neck Cells : Secrete alkaline mucous.
  4. Argentaffin/Enterochromaffin/Kultchitsky Cells : Secrete vasoconstrictor serotonin and vasodilator histamine.

3)Pyloric part :

  1. Mucous Neck cells : Secrete mucous
  2. G Cells : Secrete Gastric which i ncreases gastric motility and stimulates gastric juice secretion by gastric glans.
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