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Gastric neuroendocrine cells and secretory products
1Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
|August 26, 1999
Abstract:
The ECL cell is the most common cell type in the oxyntic mucosa of the stomach. It is producing a number of peptides and amines where histamine and chromogranin A seems to be the most important and abundant products. Recent data indicate a direct correlation between ECL-cell mass and circulating chromogranin A levels. Chromogranin A and its splice products might serve as growth promoting agents in ECL-cell hyperplasia or gastric carcinoids.