Gastric pits

Gastric pits
Layers of Stomach Wall: Serosa Tela subserosa Muscularis Oblique fibers of muscle wall Circular muscle layer Longitudinal muscle layer Submucosa Lamina muscularis mucosae Mucosa Lamina propria Epithelium Gastric glands Gastric pits Villous folds Gastric areas (gastric surface)
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Latin	foveolae gastricae
Dorlands /Elsevier	f_15/12377517
TA	A05.5.01.032
FMA	62947 76583, 62947
Anatomical terminology []

Gastric pits are in the stomach which denote entrances to the tubular shaped gastric glands. They are deeper in the pylorus 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 lining epithelium. 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 is secreted from gastric glands, which are located in narrow tube like structures called gastric pits. Gastric juice contains hydrochloric acid, pepsinogen and mucus in a healthy adult. Hydrochloric acid is secreted by parietal cells, pepsinogen is secreted by gastric chief cells and mucus is secreted by mucus neck cells.

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)