Parts and functions of gastric gland
- Mucous cells secrete mucus that protects stomach wall for pepsin,
- Parietal cells (oxyntic cells) are the epithelial cells that secrete hydrochloric acid (HCl) and intrinsic factor.
- The gastric chief cell (also known as a zymogenic cell or peptic cell) is a cell in the stomach that releases pepsinogen and chymosin. Pepsinogen is activated into the digestive enzyme pepsin when it comes in contact with acid produced by gastric parietal cells.
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