Development of serous cutaneous glands in Scinax nasica (Anura, Hylidae): Patterns of poison biosynthesis and maturation in comparison with larval glands in specimens of other families

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 274-287

  Terreni, A ^b   Nosi, D ^a   Greven, H ^c   Delfino, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anuran larval skin; Gland ultrastructure; Scinax nasica

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; GOLGI COMPLEX; HOMEOSTASIS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SECRETORY GRANULE; SECRETORY VESICLE; SKIN GLAND; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOAD;

ANURA; DISCOGLOSSIDAE; HYLIDAE; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; NASICA; PELOBATIDAE; PIPIDAE; SCINAX;

EID: 0041431070     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-8166(03)00049-1     Document Type: Article

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