argentaffin cells การใช้

• An argentaffin cell is any enteroendocrine cell, a hormone secreting cell present throughout the digestive tract.
• Argentaffin cell, one of the round or partly flattened cells occurring in the lining tissue of the digestive tract and containing granules thought to be of secretory function.
• Functionally, it is believed that serotonin diffuses out of the argentaffin cells into the walls of the digestive tract, where neurons leading to the muscles are stimulated to produce the wavelike contractions of peristalsis.
• Fontana-Masson stain, uses the fact that those cells can reduce the silver salts to metallic silver ( brownish-black ) colour without the aid of reducing agent, which the definition of Argentaffin cells.