Ultrastructural organization of bovine chromaffin cell cortex - Analysis by cryofixation and morphometry of aspects pertinent to exocytosis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1709-1717

  Plattner, Helmut ^a   Artalejo, Antonio R ^b,c   Neher, Erwin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CHROMAFFIN GRANULE; COW; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMAFFIN CELLS; CHROMAFFIN GRANULES; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; EXOCYTOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 0031425428     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.7.1709     Document Type: Article

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