They work with organs such as the kidney, lungs, stomach, brain, intestine.

The exocrine pancreas is one of two compartments that include digestive-acting acinar cells and duct cells.They represent an extension of the intercalated duct into each pancreatic acinus.

As well as direct the pathway of the enzyme into the gut, which helps the endocrine pancreas in secreting the hormone into the circulation.

Mutations that can occur because of blockage/ accumulation in the pancreatic duct are disorders such as cystic fibrosis.

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 1204 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)