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The mucous neck cell in the human gastric corpus: a distinctive, functional cell lineage
1 Feb 1999
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There is considerable debate about whether the mucous neck cell (MNC) in the mucosa of the gastric corpus is merely a transit cell population, intermediate between gastric stem cells and the differentiated zymogenic (chief or peptic) cell lineages, or has distinct functions of its own. To cast light on these possibilities, the secretory phenotype of the MNC has been examined. Archival gastric body samples from...
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