Ultrastructural characteristics of endocrine and glandular gastric cells
Zufarov, K.A.; Rasulev, K.I.
Biulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny 102(9): 359-362
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0365-9615 PMID: 2875750 Document Number: 285206
Electron microscopy of human gastric mucosa has demonstrated that the endocrine cells are closely and specifically related to the adjacent glandular cells and the basal membrane. Cytoplasmic strands of the adjacent cells surround the endocrine cells and their projections, probably, regulating their secretion. The above outlined relations are considered a structural basis for complex regulatory endocrine and paracrine functions of the gastric endocrine cells.