title: Endocrine cells in oxyntic mucosa of a dog 5 years after pancreatectomy.
abstract: Immunofluorescence shows that the oxyntic mucosa of a dog depancreatized for 5 years and having a poorly-controlled diabetes has more glucagon- and somatostatin-containing cells than the mucosa of a control dog. At the ultrastructural level, 4 endocrine cell types are identified: A-, A-like, D- and enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells, with increased numbers of A-, A-like and D-cells in gastric glands of the depancreatized dog, together with a higher concentration of immunoreactive glucagon in the gastric mucosa. The increase in A-, A-like and D-cells is compatible with: a) a change induced by the diabetic state itself; b) a hyperplasia secondary to the loss of corresponding pancreatic cells. At any rate, the fact that A-, A-like and D-cells increase parallely may indicate that these three cell types are functionally related one with another.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D004285:Dogs; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D005768:Gastrointestinal Hormones / Q000378:metabolism*; D005934:Glucagon / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D010180:Pancreatectomy
chemical_list: D005768:Gastrointestinal Hormones; D005934:Glucagon