[The morphofunctional changes in the EC cells of the duodenum in the white rat during starvation]

EC-cells morphofunctional changes were studied in the albino rats duodenal mucosa in different periods of starvation (1, 2, 3, 6 days). Dynamics of the endocrinocyte number increase and change of argentaffine reaction extent indicate active participation of duodenal EC cells in the development of compensatory-adaptive reactions induced by starvation.