The fundus is a dome-shaped part of the stomach that stores gas from digestion. It can also hold food if the stomach becomes full. The stomach is an important part of the digestive system.

Parietal cells are present in the gastric pits that mainly occur in the upper part of the stomach, or the fundus. They secrete hydrochloric acid, which helps break down food. Hydrochloric acid ...

PAF causes strong contractions—especially in the muscles of the esophagus and the stomach’s upper region (called the gastric fundus). In other parts of the intestine, such as the small ...

THE stomach being a hollow organ centrally placed in the upper abdomen, it is quite conceivable that it can have indentations from an enlarged spleen at the fundus. Roentgenologists have observed ...

Despite the global prevalence of gastric disease, there are few adequate models in which to study the fundus epithelium of the human stomach. We differentiated human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs ...