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The initial formation of the stomach occurs during the early part of the 10th prenatal day, when it appears as a distal expansion of the esophagus (McCrady 1938). The stomach rudiment continues to expand and, by the 12th prenatal day, is lined by a simple columnar epithelium surrounded by a delicate mesenchymal tissue without apparent subdivision. Enteroendocrine cells of undetermined nature are scattered within the gastric epithelium prior to birth.
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Krause, W.J., Cutts, J.H. (1992). Stomach. In: Development of the Digestive System in the North American Opossum (Didelphis virginiana). Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 125. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77287-0_4
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