Fig. 3.

Distribution of ICC in human gastric corpus of greater curvature. In HE staining (Aa, Ba, Ca), the whole layers of human gastric corpus from greater curvature can be seen. In c-Kit immunostaining, c-Kit positive ICC is also observed in every layer; muscularis mucosa (Ab), longitudinal muscle (Ac), submucosa (Bb), circular muscle (Bc), and myenteric area (Cb). In human gastric corpus, oblique muscle is not as prominent as in fundus. ICC is seen in long spindle-like (fusiform) shaped cell body and multiple processes from the central cell body, and is also identified in mucosa (Ab). Arrow: processes or ramification, arrow head: central cell body.