Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Readily stained with chromium salts.
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- adjective cytology Having an
affinity for (and thus beingstained brownish yellow) bychromium salts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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[62-64] A particularly impressive evidence of the capacity of NGF to modulate phenotypic expression is the case of SIF cells which have been hypothesized as immediate precursors of both sympathetic and chromaffin cells.
Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later 1986
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Each suprarenal gland consists of a cortical portion derived from the celomic epithelium and a medullary portion originally composed of sympatho-chromaffin tissue.
XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Chromaphil and Cortical Systems 1918
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Into this cortical portion cells from the neighboring masses of sympatho-chromaffin tissue migrate along the line of its central vein to reach and form the medullary portion of the gland.
XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Chromaphil and Cortical Systems 1918
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Chromaphil or chromaffin cells, so-called because they stain yellow or brownish with chromium salts, are associated with the ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system.
XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Chromaphil and Cortical Systems 1918
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Burgoyne RD, Neher E (1999) Early requirement for alpha-SNAP and NSF in the secretory cascade in chromaffin cells.
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Burgoyne RD (1995) A role for soluble NSF attachment proteins (SNAPs) in regulated exocytosis in adrenal chromaffin cells.
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"Brevenal inhibits Pacific ciguatoxin 1B-induced neurosecretion from bovine chromaffin cells"
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"Brevenal inhibits Pacific ciguatoxin 1B-induced neurosecretion from bovine chromaffin cells"
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