Endocrine pancreatic cells from Xenopus laevis: Light and electron microscopic studies

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-205

  Lozano, María Teresa ^a   Hernández, María Pilar García ^a   Agulleiro, Blanca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; GLUCAGON; INSULIN; PANCREAS POLYPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE YY; SOMATOSTATIN 14; SOMATOSTATIN 25; SOMATOSTATIN 28; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOCRINE CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY GRANULE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0344689833     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7247     Document Type: Article

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