PP cell

PP cell
Identifiers
Code	TH H3.04.02.0.00035
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

PP cells, or gamma cells, are cells which produce pancreatic polypeptides in the pancreatic islets (Islets of Langerhans) of the pancreas. They are very few in number and are polygonal in shape.

PP cells have very few organelles and few granules.

Anterior	Pars intermedia Pars tuberalis Pars distalis Acidophil cell Somatotropic cell Prolactin cell Somatomammotrophic cell Basophil cell Corticotropic cell Gonadotropic cell Thyrotropic cell Chromophobe cell

Posterior	Pars nervosa Median eminence Stalk Pituicyte Herring bodies

Cortex	Zona glomerulosa Zona fasciculata Zona reticularis

Medulla	Chromaffin cell

Other

Stomach	Enteroendocrine cell G cell Delta cell Enterochromaffin-like cell Gastric chief cell Parietal cell Foveolar cell

Intestine	Enteroendocrine cell Gastric inhibitory polypeptide S cell Delta cell Cholecystokinin Goblet cell Paneth cell Tuft cell Enterocyte Microfold cell

Liver	Hepatocyte Hepatic stellate cell (Kupffer cell from mesoderm)

Gallbladder	Cholecystocyte

Exocrine pancreas	Centroacinar cell Pancreatic stellate cell

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