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SYSTEM
Large intestine and Anal
canal
Large intestine:
1-Columnar cells:
• There are more numerous type.
2-Goblet cells:
• The mucin vacules are larger in the sigmoid
colon & rectum than in the caecum &
ascending colon.
3-Stem cells:
These are found at the base of crypt, they develop to
other type of cells.
4-Endocrine cells:
• Large intestine contains some endocrine cells mainly in
the lower half of crypts.
• Their granules found at the basal of nucleus.
• They contain Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide
• The epithelium overlying lymphatic follicle that are
present in the lamina propria contains M-cells as those
found in small intestine.
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Muscularis externa: