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OBSERVATIONS ON THE GASTRIC MUCOSA OF REPTILIA
Author(s) -
Wright R. D.,
Florey H. W.,
Sanders A. G.
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
quarterly journal of experimental physiology and cognate medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1469-445X
pISSN - 0033-5541
DOI - 10.1113/expphysiol.1957.sp001224
Subject(s) - stomach , gastric mucosa , gastric chief cell , pepsin , parietal cell , cannula , foveolar cell , gastric glands , biology , anatomy , secretion , stimulation , medicine , endocrinology , surgery , biochemistry , enzyme
1. Histological and experimental observations were made on the gastric secretion of the Australian lizards Tiliqua nigro‐lutea and Tachysaurus rugosus , and on the tortoise Testudo grœca . In Tiliqua nigro‐lutea a permanent fistula with an indwelling cannula was inserted into the stomach for the collection of gastric juice from the unanæsthetized animal. 2. Histologically, the gastric gland cells of these animals contain granules that resemble mammalian pepsinogen granules, but there is no cell in the glands that can be identified with the mammalian parietal cell. 3. The effects of food, of drugs and of vagal stimulation on the secretion of gastric juice were observed. In spite of histological differences from the mammalian stomach, the stomach in these three species produces a gastric juice that in essentials resembles that of mammals.