Ultrastructural characterization of tannic acid-arrested degranulation of permeabilized guinea pig eosinophils stimulated with GTP-γ-S

European Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-220

  Newman, Terence M ^a   Tian, Min ^b   Gomperts, Bastien D ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exocytosis; Freeze fracture replication; GTP S stimulation; Guinea pig eosinophils; Tannic acid arrest

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE 5' O (3 THIOTRIPHOSPHATE); TANNIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL STIMULATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COATED PIT; DEGRANULATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EOSINOPHIL; EXOCYTOSIS; FREEZE FRACTURE; GUINEA PIG; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0029901614     PISSN: 01719335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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