Topic summary
Cardiac glands
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Gastric glands.
Location
The cardiac glands are found in the cardia of the stomach which is the part nearest to the heart, enclosing the opening where the esophagus joins to the stomach. Cardiac glands primarily secrete mucus. They are fewer in number than the other gastric glands and are more shallowly positioned in the mucosa. There are two kinds - either simple tubular with short ducts or compound racemose resembling the duodenalBrunner's glands.