Primary Culture of Human Antral Endocrine and Epithelial Cells

The mucosal endocrine cells in the antrum are found as individual elements interspersed among the surrounding epithelial cells, the majority of these being the gastric mucous cells. To establish the factors regulating either endocrine or mucous cell function, the cells have to be separated not only from nonepithe-lial cells, but also from circulating and neuronal elements within the stomach.