In cell biology, a granule is a small particle barely visible by light microscopy. The term is most often used to describe a secretory vesicle containing...
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Look up granule or granules in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A granule is a large particle or grain. It can refer to: Granule (cell biology), any of...
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In cellular biology, stress granules are biomolecular condensates in the cytosol composed of proteins and RNAs that assemble into 0.1–2 μm membraneless...
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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 used...
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granule cell has been used for a number of different types of neurons whose only common feature is that they all have very small cell bodies. Granule...
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Alpha granules, (α-granules) also known as platelet alpha-granules are a cellular component of platelets. Platelets contain different types of granules that...
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Eosinophil (redirect from Eosinophil granule proteins)
eosinophil cationic granule proteins on IMR-32 nerve cell signaling and survival". American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 33 (2): 169–77...
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A mast cell (also known as a mastocyte or a labrocyte) is a resident cell of connective tissue that contains many granules rich in histamine and heparin...
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In cell biology, a bleb (or snout) is a bulge of the plasma membrane of a cell, characterized by a spherical, "blister-like", bulky morphology. It is...
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simply termed "characteristic granules"), they are solely found in Langerhans cells. Although part of normal Langerhans cell histology, they also provide...
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Granulocyte (redirect from Polymorphonuclear blood cell)
Granulocytes are cells in the innate immune system characterized by the presence of specific granules in their cytoplasm. Such granules distinguish them...
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organelles, including granules called Nissl granules, which are composed largely of rough endoplasmic reticulum and free polyribosomes. The cell nucleus is a key...
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induced nuclear granules form in response to accumulation of misfolded proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans". Primary. BMC Cell Biology. 18 (1): 18. doi:10...
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cells synapse onto the dendrite of granule cells and unipolar brush cells. They receive excitatory input from mossy fibres, also synapsing on granule...
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cells contain numerous cytoplasmic granules. The granules in peripolar cells are secretory, and the cells show features of secretory epithelial cells...
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furthest from the cell's center. Following fertilization, a signaling pathway induces the cortical granules to fuse with the oocyte's cell membrane and release...
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Cellular differentiation (redirect from Differentiation (biology))
stem cell self-renewal. In both humans and mice, researchers showed Bmi1 to be highly expressed in proliferating immature cerebellar granule cell precursors...
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interchromatin granule is a cluster in the nucleus of a mammal cell which is enriched in pre-mRNA splicing factors. Interchromatin granules are located in...
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cytoplasm granules (present or absent, or more precisely, visible on light microscopy or not thus visible). The other dichotomy is by lineage: Myeloid cells (neutrophils...
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cytosolic granules known as chloragosomes. The most understood function of chloragogen tissue is its function in the excretory system. The cells accumulate...
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these granules and is shaped like a stem. The goblet cell is highly polarized with the nucleus and other organelles concentrated at the base of the cell and...
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are Drosophila melanogaster germline granules. Nuage are the hallmark of Drosophila melanogaster germline cells, which have an electron-dense perinuclear...
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granules. Examples of inclusions are glycogen granules in the liver and muscle cells, lipid droplets in fat cells, pigment granules in certain cells of...
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Organelle (redirect from Cell organelle)
In cell biology, an organelle is a specialized subunit, usually within a cell, that has a specific function. The name organelle comes from the idea that...
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Lamellar bodies (redirect from Lamellar granule)
In cell biology, lamellar bodies (otherwise known as lamellar granules, membrane-coating granules (MCGs), keratinosomes or Odland bodies) are secretory...
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Cerebellum (redirect from Granule cell layer)
Purkinje cell receives two dramatically different types of input: one comprises thousands of weak inputs from the parallel fibers of the granule cells; the...
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land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy. mast cell A cell filled with basophil granules, found in numbers...
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Specific granules are secretory vesicles found exclusively in cells of the immune system called granulocytes. It is sometimes described as applying specifically...
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In biology, autolysis, more commonly known as self-digestion, refers to the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes. It may also refer...
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the intestinal stem cells in the intestinal glands (also called crypts of Lieberkühn) and the large eosinophilic refractile granules that occupy most of...
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