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...

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...

In cellular biology, stress granules are biomolecular condensates in the cytosol composed of proteins and RNAs that assemble into 0.1–2 μm membraneless...

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...

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...

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...

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...

cells synapse onto the dendrite of granule cells and unipolar brush cells. They receive excitatory input from mossy fibres, also synapsing on granule...

eosinophil cationic granule proteins on IMR-32 nerve cell signaling and survival". American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 33 (2): 169–77...

simply termed "characteristic granules"), they are solely found in Langerhans cells. Although part of normal Langerhans cell histology, they also provide...

Alpha granules, (α-granules) also known as platelet alpha-granules are a cellular component of platelets. Platelets contain different types of granules that...

organelles, including granules called Nissl granules, which are composed largely of rough endoplasmic reticulum and free polyribosomes. The cell nucleus is a key...

induced nuclear granules form in response to accumulation of misfolded proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans". Primary. BMC Cell Biology. 18 (1): 18. doi:10...

stem cell self-renewal. In both humans and mice, researchers showed Bmi1 to be highly expressed in proliferating immature cerebellar granule cell precursors...

land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy. mast cell A cell filled with basophil granules, found in numbers...

Glitter cells (also called Sternheimer-Malbin positive cells) are polymorphonuclear leukocyte neutrophils with granules that show a Brownian movement...

electron microscope, delta-cells can be identified as cells with smaller and slightly more compact granules than beta cells. The δ-cells in the stomach contain...

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...

Granulocytes are cells in the innate immune system characterized by the presence of specific granules in their cytoplasm. Such granules distinguish them...

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...

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...

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...

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...

granules. Examples of inclusions are glycogen granules in the liver and muscle cells, lipid droplets in fat cells, pigment granules in certain cells of...

Darstellungsmethode der Zellgranula" [The vital stain: a method of imaging cell granules]. Archiv für Mikroskopische Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte [Archive...

cytosolic granules known as chloragosomes. The most understood function of chloragogen tissue is its function in the excretory system. The cells accumulate...

animal cell with its spongioplasm and hyaloplasm, often called the formative yolk; and the nutritive yolk or deutoplasm, made of rounded granules of fatty...

the intestinal stem cells in the intestinal glands (also called crypts of Lieberkühn) and the large eosinophilic refractile granules that occupy most of...

Purkinje cell receives two dramatically different types of input: one comprises thousands of weak inputs from the parallel fibers of the granule cells; the...

Specific granules are secretory vesicles found exclusively in cells of the immune system called granulocytes. It is sometimes described as applying specifically...