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. 2016 Jan 27;17(2):166. doi: 10.3390/ijms17020166

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Morphology of salivary glands. Salivary glands are made of three epithelial cell types: acinar (AC), ductal (DC) and myoepithelial cells (MEC). Acinar cells organized into acini connected to a network of ducts classified into intercalated (ID), striated (SD) and excretory ducts (ED).