Ultrastructural evidence of a vesicle-mediated mode of cell degranulation in chicken chromaffin cells during the late phase of embryonic development

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 310-317

  Crivellato, Enrico ^a   Nico, Beatrice ^c   Travan, Luciana ^a   Isola, Miriam ^b   Ribatti, Domenico ^c  

^a Department of Medical and Morphological Research Anatomy Section ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chick embryo; Chromaffin cells; Piecemeal degranulation; Prehatching phase; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL GRANULE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SECRETION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CHICKEN; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEGRANULATION; DOMESTIC FOWL; ELECTRON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

GALLIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CELL DEGRANULATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CHROMAFFIN CELLS; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON;

EID: 61549094586     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.01032.x     Document Type: Article

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