| Gastric pits | |
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| Details | |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | foveolae gastricae |
| TA98 | A05.5.01.032 |
| TA2 | 2918 |
| FMA | 76583 |
| Anatomical terminology | |
Gastric pits areindentations in thestomach which denote entrances to 3-5 tubulargastric glands.[1][2] They are deeper in thepylorus than they are in the other parts of the stomach. The human stomach has several million of these pits which dot the surface of the liningepithelium.Surface mucous cells line the pits themselves but give way to a series of other types of cells which then line the glands themselves.
Gastric juice, containinggastric acid, is secreted from gastric glands, which are located in gastric pits. Gastric juice containshydrochloric acid,pepsinogen andmucus. Hydrochloric acid is secreted byparietal cells, pepsinogen is secreted bygastric chief cells and mucus is secreted by mucous neck cells.[3]
This article incorporates text in thepublic domain from the 20th edition ofGray's Anatomy(1918)
