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Enteroendocrine cells of the intestine are the most numerous endocrine cells of the body. They constitute an enteric endocrine system as a subset of the endocrine system just as the enteric nervous system is a subset of the nervous system.
Being a hormone, gastrin is secreted into blood, not into the lumen of the stomach. Similarly, other hormones produced by the enteric endocrine system are synthesized and secreted by cells within the epithelium of the small intestine.n contrast to endocrine glands like the anterior pituitary gland, in which essentially all cells produce hormones, the enteric endocrine system is diffuse: single hormone-secreting cells are scattered among other types of epithelial cells in the mucosa of the stomach and small intestine.