Chromaffin Granules in the Rat Adrenal Medulla Release Their Secretory Content in a Particulate Fashion

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

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 204-208

  Crivellato, Enrico ^a,d   Belloni, Anna ^b   Nico, Beatrice ^c   Nussdorfer, Gastone G ^b   Ribatti, Domenico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^d Dept Med Morphological Res U   (Italy)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CHROMAFFIN GRANULE; CYTOPLASM; EXOCYTOSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SECRETION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 1442311401     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20004     Document Type: Article

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