peptic cell

Chief cells are also known as peptic cells.

A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands.

A gastric chief cell (also known as a symogenic cell or peptic cell) is a cell in the stomach that releases pepsinogen and chymosin.

An effort to correlate mucosal pepsinogen accumulation with total peptic activity and peptic cell mass shows good correlation between these parameters in normal and inflamed gastric mucosa.