Chromaffin cells in the adrenal homolog of Aphanius fasciatus (teleost fish) express piecemeal degranulation in response to osmotic stress: A hint for a conservative evolutionary process

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

Volumn 288, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1077-1086

  Crivellato, Enrico ^a,c   Civinini, Annalena ^b   Gallo, Valentina Patrizia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Anatomy Section ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Aphanius fasciatus; Chromaffin cells; Piecemeal degranulation; Stress response; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; TAP WATER;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APHANIUS FASCIATUS; ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CHROMAFFIN GRANULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRANULATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALINITY; TELEOST;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMALS; CELL DEGRANULATION; CHROMAFFIN CELLS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FUNDULIDAE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE;

APHANIUS FASCIATUS; PISCES; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33749463400     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20372     Document Type: Article

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