Pyloric glands
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| Pyloric glands | |
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| A pyloric gland, from a section of the dog’s stomach. m. Mouth. n. Neck. tr. A deep portion of a tubule cut transversely. | |
| Latin | glandulae pyloricae |
| Gray's | subject #247 1166 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | g_06/12391889 |
The pyloric glands are found in the pyloric portion of the stomach.
They consist of two or three short closed tubes opening into a common duct or mouth.
These tubes are wavy, and are about one-half the length of the duct.
The duct is lined by columnar cells, continuous with the epithelium lining the surface of the mucous membrane of the stomach, the tubes by shorter and more cubical cell which are finely granular.
Types of cells
Cells in the pyloric glands include:
- mucous cells, which secrete mucus
- G cells, which secrete gastrin
External links
- pyloric+glands at eMedicine Dictionary
- Histology at OU 51_06 - "Pyloric stomach"
- Histology at KUMC glands-glands10 "Simple Branched Tubular "
- MedEd at Loyola Histo/frames/Histo17.html - see slide #12
- Slide at ou.edu
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