Ultrastructural morphology of adrenal chromaffin cells indicative of a process of piecemeal degranulation

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 270, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-108

  Crivellato, Enrico ^a   Nico, Beatrice ^b   Perissin, Laura ^a   Ribatti, Domenico ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^c POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adrenal chromaffin cells; Mouse; Piecemeal degranulation; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SECRETION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMAFFIN GRANULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEGRANULATION; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCHROMAFFIN CELL; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PIECEMEAL DEGRANULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0141924872     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10013     Document Type: Article

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