intercalated duct

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Related to intercalated duct: interlobular duct, intralobular duct

intercalated duct

Any of several short, narrow ducts that lie between the secretory ducts and the terminal alveoli in the parotid and submandibular glands and in the pancreas.

intercalated

inserted between.

intercalated disk

dark staining, transversely oriented bands scattered through cardiac muscle fibers; points of end-to-end contact between contiguous myocardial fibers.

intercalated duct

small tubules connecting alveoli of salivary glands to intralobular striated ducts and finally to excretory duct.

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Intercalated ducts were present close to developing islet tissue in the twenty specimens of groups A and B and not present in group C.

Postnatal Histogenesis of Islets of Langerhans in Rat

SOX10 is a novel marker of acinus and intercalated duct differentiation in salivary gland tumors: a clue to the histogenesis for tumor diagnosis.

Review and Updates of Immunohistochemistry in Selected Salivary Gland and Head and Neck Tumors

Observations on the natural history of a parotid epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma of intercalated ducts.

Primary salivary clear cell tumors--a diagnostic approach: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 20 patients with clear cell carcinoma, clear cell myoepithelial carcinoma, and epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma

The smallest ducts are comparable to intercalated ducts but the large ducts for the most part lack the distinguishing features of striated ducts3.

HISTOLOGICAL STUDY OF HUMAN SUBLINGUAL GLAND WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON INTERCALATED AND STRIATED DUCTS

It has been postulated that these tumours arise from intercalated ducts and myoepithelial cells (4).

Pleomorphic adenoma of palate--a unique presentation

The intercalated ducts empty into the striated ducts, which have a single layer of cylindrical epithelium, the cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm, having a large nucleus located in the central-basal part.

Estudio histologico de las glandulas salivales de Zaedyus pichiy (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Dasypodidae)

1,2] In a normal gland, myoepithelial cells are located between the epithelial cells and the basal lamina of acini and intercalated ducts.

Myoepithelioma of the parotid gland: A report of two cases

There are intercalated ducts with cubical epithelium connecting the acini with the striated ducts.

Estudio histologico de las glandulas salivales de Dasypus hybridus (mammalia, dasypodidae)