gastric gland

The branched tubular glands found in the mucosa of the fundus and body of the stomach which contain parietal cells that secrete hydrochloric acid and zymogenic cells that produce pepsin. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gastric gland is

The branched tubular glands found in the mucosa of the fundus and body of the stomach which contain parietal cells that secrete hydrochloric acid and zymogenic cells that produce pepsin. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the gastric gland is

It sits within the digestive system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the gastric gland connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of digestive system, digestive tract and foregut, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gastric gland. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000325, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the gastric gland?

It sits within the digestive system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the gastric gland connect to?

Part of: digestive system, digestive tract, foregut and stomach glandular epithelium.

Is the gastric gland the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.