surface area threefold. Villi and intestinal glands serve to increase the mucosal surface area tenfold. (Intestinal villus) Microvilli covering the apical... 27 KB (3,041 words) - 16:01, 7 April 2024 |
serous glands; also called "eccrine", e.g. major sweat glands of humans, goblet cells, salivary gland, tear gland and intestinal glands) Apocrine glands –... 7 KB (750 words) - 17:28, 26 April 2024 |
Intestinal villi (sg.: villus) are small, finger-like projections that extend into the lumen of the small intestine. Each villus is approximately 0.5–1... 6 KB (618 words) - 14:23, 6 April 2024 |
Gastrointestinal wall (redirect from Intestinal mucosa) increase the surface area over which absorption can take place. Numerous intestinal glands as pocket-like invaginations are present in the underlying tissue... 15 KB (1,736 words) - 15:15, 6 April 2024 |
eccrine sweat glands[dubious – discuss], salivary glands, goblet cells, intestinal glands, tear glands, etc. Apocrine – the apical portion of the cytoplasm... 5 KB (441 words) - 14:58, 19 March 2024 |
Gastrointestinal tract (redirect from Gastro-intestinal tract) provided by the intestinal mucosal barrier, which is composed of physical, biochemical, and immune elements elaborated by the intestinal mucosa. Microorganisms... 49 KB (5,781 words) - 08:06, 17 April 2024 |
Human digestive system (redirect from Accessory digestive gland) gastric phase, and the intestinal phase. The first stage, the cephalic phase of digestion, begins with secretions from gastric glands in response to the sight... 64 KB (8,590 words) - 07:53, 2 March 2024 |
Gastric glands are glands in the lining of the stomach that play an essential role in the process of digestion. The gastric glands are located in gastric... 13 KB (1,559 words) - 11:37, 28 April 2024 |
Small intestine (redirect from Small intestinal) is considered abnormally dilated. The surface area of the human small intestinal mucosa, due to enlargement caused by folds, villi and microvilli, averages... 30 KB (3,454 words) - 15:26, 22 March 2024 |
Peyer's patch (redirect from Peyer's glands) Peyer's patches were actually lymph glands. Peyer's patches are observable as elongated thickenings of the intestinal mucosa measuring a few centimeters... 19 KB (2,272 words) - 16:21, 1 March 2024 |
Vasoactive intestinal peptide, also known as vasoactive intestinal polypeptide or VIP, is a peptide hormone that is vasoactive in the intestine. VIP is... 23 KB (2,718 words) - 05:32, 31 October 2023 |
are called the intestinal glands or colonic crypts. Micrograph of normal large instestinal crypts. Anatomy of normal large intestinal crypts The colon... 48 KB (5,655 words) - 12:46, 22 March 2024 |
Parathyroid glands are small endocrine glands in the neck of humans and other tetrapods. Humans usually have four parathyroid glands, located on the back... 23 KB (2,491 words) - 18:17, 9 April 2024 |
Submucosa (redirect from Small intestinal submucosa) and nerves (all supplying the mucosa) will run through here. In the intestinal wall, tiny parasympathetic ganglia are scattered around forming the submucous... 7 KB (707 words) - 15:27, 2 March 2024 |
Gastric mucosa (section Gastric glands) layer of the stomach, which contains the gastric pits, to which the gastric glands empty. In humans, it is about one mm thick, and its surface is smooth, soft... 5 KB (619 words) - 21:28, 18 April 2024 |
in the lower left quadrant of the abdomen instead of the lower right. Intestinal malrotation may also cause displacement of the appendix to the left side... 29 KB (3,272 words) - 08:43, 21 April 2024 |
fraction found in the intestinal juices that digest peptones into amino acids. It is produced and secreted by the intestinal glands in the ileum and the... 5 KB (637 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024 |
derived from stem cells are constantly produced on the bottom of the intestinal glands, regenerating the epithelium (epithelial cell turnover time is less... 26 KB (3,292 words) - 06:15, 24 September 2023 |
peculiar organ it is. There's nothing like it in mammals. The secretory glands that line the proventriculus gives it the nickname of the "true stomach... 11 KB (1,261 words) - 20:21, 7 February 2024 |