Dense granules (also known as dense bodies or delta granules) are specialized secretory organelles. Dense granules are found only in platelets and are...

Examples of granules include granulocytes, platelet granules, insulin granules, germane granules, starch granules, and stress granules. It is considered...

granules, dense granules, and lysosomes. Of these, alpha granules are the most common, making up 50% to 80% of the secretory granules. Alpha granules...

Dense body may refer to: Dense granule, a secretory organelle Ribbon synapse, a type of neuronal synapse Electron-dense portions of smooth muscle This...

complex and are known as the dense granules. These typically have a mean diameter around 0.7 μm. Secretion of the dense-granule content takes place after...

fibronectin, platelet-derived growth factor, and chemotactic agents. Delta granules, or dense bodies, contain ADP, calcium, and serotonin, which are platelet-activating...

of the dense granules and alpha granules. From the dense granules, serotonin and adenosine diphosphate are released. From the alpha granules come molecules...

McNicol A (April 1996). "The lysosomal granule membrane protein, LAMP-2, is also present in platelet dense granule membranes". Thrombosis and Haemostasis...

cytometric assay using mepacrine for study of uptake and release of platelet dense granule contents". Br. J. Haematol. 89 (2): 380–385. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2141...

"membrane flipping" where the platelet releases α- and dense granules and the inner walls of the granules are exposed on the outside of the cell. The P-selectin...

regulation of dopamine secretion neuron projection morphogenesis platelet dense granule organization response to stimulus regulation of dopamine receptor signaling...

Jain N, Gerrard JM (April 1993). "The protein CD63 is in platelet dense granules, is deficient in a patient with Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, and appears...

through its interactions with Rab27a appears to be important for the dense granule release from platelets. The mutated Rab27a interaction with Munc13-4...

In cellular neuroscience, Nissl bodies (also called Nissl granules, Nissl substance or tigroid substance) are discrete granular structures in neurons that...

into dense globules could keep them from reacting with harmful chemicals and safeguard the information coded in their RNA sequence. Stress granules might...

snow contain voids. Many materials exist in nature as flakes, pellets, or granules. Voids are regions which contain something other than the considered material...

transport network for molecules going to specific parts of the cell Dense granule layer (ribosomes) Nucleus Spongy layer (vesicles) Rumposome Microbody...

the alpha granules or the dense granules. Some common inherited disorders associated with each include the following: Platelet alpha-granules Gray platelet...

Cerebellar granule cells form the thick granular layer of the cerebellar cortex and are among the smallest neurons in the brain. (The term granule cell is...

Ruiz FA, Lea CR, Oldfield E, Docampo R (Oct 2004). "Human platelet dense granules contain polyphosphate and are similar to acidocalcisomes of bacteria...

Contractile vacuole, regulates the quantity of water inside a cell Dense granule Mitochondrion, creates ATP (energy) for the cell, tubular cristae Food...

trypanosomes, a group of flagellated protozoans, the kinetoplast exists as a dense granule of DNA within the mitochondrion. Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite which...

into three layers. At the bottom lies the thick granular layer, densely packed with granule cells, along with interneurons, mainly Golgi cells but also including...

secretory organelles present in all Apicomplexa along with micronemes and dense granules. Rhoptries and micronemes are localized at the apical complex of the...

mucus produced by the upper airways. The heterogeneous nature of the dense granules within the club cell's cytoplasm suggests that they may not all have...

gray platelet syndrome (deficient alpha granules), and delta storage pool deficiency (deficient dense granules). Most are rare. They predispose to hemorrhage...

neurons of abnormal, fluid-filled bubbles (vacuoles) containing a dense proteinaceous granule. Granulovacuoles occur most commonly in pyramidal neurons of...

cells. Spread throughout the parasite are secretory vesicles called dense granules that contain parasite proteins involved in modifying the membrane that...

of the endosomal-lysosomal system, such as melanosomes and platelet dense granules (Starcevic and Dell'Angelica, 2004).[supplied by OMIM] BLOC1S1 has been...

membrane extracellular exosome nucleus extracellular region platelet dense granule lumen extracellular space collagen-containing extracellular matrix Biological...