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Glands
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Physiology
Undergraduate 3
09/26/2008

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Term
Goblet Cell
Definition

Found: trachea, GI, Intestines

 

Histological name: unicellular exocrine gland

 

Secretes: Glycosamineglycan

Term
Argentaffin Cell
Definition

Found: Small intestines, Central lacteal

 

Histological name:unicellular endocrine gland

 

Secretes: CCK, secretin, serotonin

Term
Subtracheal Glands
Definition

 

Histological name:

Simple multicelluar tubular-alveolar

Term
Sweat Glands
Definition

Found: Skin

 

Histological name: Simple multicellular coiled tubular

 

Term
Sebaceous gland
Definition

Found: under hair follicles

 

Histological name: compound multicellular alveolar

 

Secretes: sebum

Term
Mammory Gland: Resting
Definition

 

Histological name: compound multicellular tubular

 

Secretes:milk/colostrum

Term
Mammary gland: proliferative
Definition

 

Histological name:

compound multicellular tubular-alveolar

 

Secretes:milk/colostrum

Term
Mammary gland: lactating
Definition

Histological name: compound multicellular alveolar

 

Secretes:milk/colostrum

Term
Uterine Gland
Definition

Histological name:

simple multicellular branched tubular

 

Secretes: uterine milk

Term
Von Ebner's
Definition

Found: Tongue

 

Histological name:

Compound multicellular tubular-alveolar

 

Secretes:lingual lipase

Term

Serous Acini

(Parotid Gland is composed only of Serious Acini) 

Definition

Found:Salivary glands/Pancreas

 

Histological name:compound multicellular alveolar

 

Secretes:serous fluid (GAG, water, salivary amylase, urea, heavy metals, lysozyme)

Term
Submandibular Gland
Definition

Histological name:

Compound multicellular alveolar  

 

Secretes: both serous and mucus components

Term
Subesophageal glands
Definition

 

Histological name:

Compound multicellular tubular-alveolar 

 

Secretes:mucus substanc (lubricates the lumen)

Term
Gastric Glands
Definition

Found:stomach

 

Histological name:

Simple multicellular branched tubular

 

Secretes:

Neck Cells: mucus 

Parietal cells: HCL

Chief Cells: Pepsinogen

Argentaggin: CCK, secretin, seretonin 

Term
Bruner's Gland
Definition

Found:Duodenum submucosa (small intestine)

 

Histological name:

Compound multicellular alveolar 

 

Secretes:alkaline fluid, bicarbonate (HCO3)

Term
Paneth Cells
Definition

Found:small intesting

 

Histological name: unicellular exocrine glands

 

Secretes:serozymogen

Term
Liver
Definition

Histological name:compound multicellular alveolar

 

Secretes:bile

Term
Von Kupffer Cell
Definition

Found:Liver

 

Modified monocytes or modified simple squamos w/ phagocytic capability

 

Term
Demilune
Definition

Found: submandibular


 

Serous acini in a half-moon configuration over mucous acini.

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