Portion of exocrine pancreas that is comprised of polarized cells containing apical zymogen granules that store digestive enzymes such as trypsin and chymotrypsin and abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria. [ http://zfin.org/ZDB-PUB-070310-3 http://zfin.org/ZDB-PUB-050623-3 ]
Synonyms: pancreatic acini exocrine glands pancreas
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- endoderm-derived structure
- portion of tissue
- part of some pancreatic lobule
- existence starts during or after some hatching:long-pec