The ultrastructure of chondrocytes in the cartilage of Sepia officinalis and Octopus vulgaris (Mollusca, Cephalopoda)

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 340-351

  Bairati, Aurelio ^a   Comazzi, Mariangela ^a   Gioria, Mariarosa ^a   Rigo, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cephalopods; Chondrocytes; Cytoskeleton; Focal adhesion; Gap junctions; Secretion

Indexed keywords

HEMOCYANIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SURFACE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CEPHALOPOD; CYTOSKELETON; GOLGI COMPLEX; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SECRETORY GRANULE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; MOLLUSCA; OCTOPUS; OCTOPUS VULGARIS; SEPIA OFFICINALIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031823171     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-8166(98)80047-5     Document Type: Article

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