Rodent acinar cells exhibit a remarkable plasticity as they can transdifferentiate to duct-, hepatocyte- and islet β-like cells. We evaluated whether exocrine cells from adult human pancreas can ...

Mar. 10, 2023 — The skeleton, tendons, and glands of a functional jaw all derive from the same population of stem cells, which arise from a cell population known as neural crest.

In mammals, a mammary duct is present in order to produce milk. The mammary duct is an organ known as an exocrine gland, which is a type of gland that secretes a substance. The mammary duct is an ...

The pancreas, structurally, is a dual organ, exocrine and endocrine. The unit structure of the exocrine gland is the alveolus (acinus) composed of pyramidal cells, and the centro-acinar cells. The ...