Ultrastructural evidence for a paracrine regulation of the rat adrenal cortex mediated by the local release of catecholamines from chromaffin cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 3126-3128

  Bornstein, Stefan R ^a   Ehrhart Bornstein, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMAFFIN CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXOCYTOSIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; CATECHOLAMINES; CHROMAFFIN GRANULES; CHROMAFFIN SYSTEM; EPINEPHRINE; EXOCYTOSIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ZONA GLOMERULOSA;

EID: 0026452475     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.131.6.1446648     Document Type: Article

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