Gastric Mucous Neck Cells

In the bottle neck

Your stomach lining has tiny glands shaped like little bottles. The narrow part at the top is called the neck. Mucous neck cells are squeezed in there.

They are smaller and more squished than the slime cells on the stomach surface. Their mucus bubbles sit near the top of the cell, and their nucleus is pushed to the bottom.

Keeping the gland slippery

Stomach glands send acid and digestive juices up toward the stomach. Mucous neck cells add their own mucus as the juices pass by.

Their mucus is a different kind from the thick surface slime. It helps keep the inside of the gland slippery and protected.

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