Endocrine-like cells in the chick embryo thymus express ultrastructural features of piecemeal degranulation

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

Volumn 282, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 106-109

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^c Anatomy Section   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chick embryo; Electron microscopy; Endocrine like cells; Piecemeal degranulation; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SECRETION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRANULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; ENDOCRINE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELL DEGRANULATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 13544268432     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20152     Document Type: Article

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