Anastomosing tubular arrangement of the exocrine pancreas

1 September 1976

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Journal of Anatomy

Vol. 147 (1) , 113-118
https://doi.org/10.1002/aja.1001470111

Abstract

Wax reconstructions of zymogen‐containing cells in rat show the arrangement of the exocrine pancreas to be a branching, anastomosing system of tubules which vary in diameter and end blindly. This arrangement is not that of a true acinar gland.

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