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To solve the unsettled problem of the identification of the gastrin cells, a study has been undertaken on the electron microscopical characteristics of the gastrin-containing cells of the cat pyloric mucosa.
Cells which, on semithin sections, were shown by an immunofluorescence method to contain gastrin, have been identified on serial ultrathin sections. The ultrastructural features of these cells are those which have been described as characteristic of the G cells of the antropyloric mucosa.
Other non-entero-chromaffin endocrine cells, which have been recognized as the D cells of the gastro-intestinal mucosa, did not result to contain gastrin.
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Bussolati, G., Canese, M.G. Electron microscopical identification of the immunofluorescent gastrin cells in the cat pyloric mucosa. Histochemie 29, 198–206 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00306143
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