• Neuroendocrine cells are cells that receive neuronal input (through neurotransmitters released by nerve cells or neurosecretory cells) and, as a consequence...
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    Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are neoplasms that arise from cells of the endocrine (hormonal) and nervous systems. They most commonly occur in the intestine...
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  • hypothalamus; the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin are synthesized by neuroendocrine cells in the hypothalamus and stored at the nerve endings in the posterior...
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    Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (PanNETs, PETs, or PNETs), often referred to as "islet cell tumours", or "pancreatic endocrine tumours" are neuroendocrine neoplasms...
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    mistaken for small cell lung cancer. It is thought to originate from neuroendocrine cells (APUD cells) in the bronchus called Feyrter cells (named for Friedrich...
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    Enterochromaffin (EC) cells (also known as Kulchitsky cells) are a type of enteroendocrine cell, and neuroendocrine cell. They reside alongside the epithelium...
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    Parafollicular cells, also called C cells, are neuroendocrine cells in the thyroid. They are called C cells because the primary function of these cells is to secrete...
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    Enterochromaffin-like cells or ECL cells are a type of neuroendocrine cell found in the gastric glands of the gastric mucosa beneath the epithelium, in...
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    Basophilic Chromophobe cell Melanotroph Chromophil Basophil cell Oxyphil cell Oxyphil cell (parathyroid) Pituitary gland Neuroendocrine cell Histology image:14002loa...
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    producing cells in the kidney Apudoma Enteroendocrine cell Neuroendocrine cell List of human cell types derived from the germ layers Boyd, C. A. R. (March...
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  • tissues of the lungs. Prior to the findings of the hyperplasia of neuroendocrine cells it was known as tachypnea of infancy, as most children outgrow the...
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    GPR43 is expressed both by this cell type and by mast cells of the mucosa. APUD cells Neuroendocrine tumors List of human cell types derived from the germ...
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  • Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia (DIPNECH) is a diffuse parenchymal lung disease which often presents with symptoms of cough...
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    Chromaffin cells, also called pheochromocytes (or phaeochromocytes), are neuroendocrine cells found mostly in the medulla of the adrenal glands in mammals...
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    important cell type is the pulmonary neuroendocrine cell. These are innervated cells that only make up around 0.5% of the respiratory epithelial cells. The...
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    cell Melanotroph Chromophil Acidophil cell Oxyphil cell Oxyphil cell (parathyroid) Pituitary gland Neuroendocrine cell Basophilic Histology image:14002loa...
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  • significant subtype is "large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma" (LCNEC), which is believed to derive from neuroendocrine cells. In addition, a "subvariant"...
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    It is also known as cutaneous APUDoma, primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin, primary small cell carcinoma of the skin, and trabecular carcinoma...
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    neck anatomy Chromophobe cell Melanotroph Chromophil Acidophil cell Basophil cell Oxyphil cell (parathyroid) Neuroendocrine cell Gibo H, Hokama M, Kyoshima...
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    Mesothelial cell Pneumocyte Type I cell Type II cell Club cell Goblet cell Pulmonary neuroendocrine cell Enteroendocrine cell G cell Delta cell Enterochromaffin-like...
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    There is estimated to be about 30 trillion (3×1013) human cells in the adult human body, varying from about 20 to 40 trillion depending on the sex, age...
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    Acidophil cell Basophil cell Oxyphil cell Oxyphil cell (parathyroid) Pituitary gland Neuroendocrine cell "ACS :: What Is Kidney Cancer (Renal Cell Carcinoma)...
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  • Magnocellular neurosecretory cells are large neuroendocrine cells within the supraoptic nucleus and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. They are...
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  • neurohormone is any hormone produced and released by neuroendocrine cells (also called neurosecretory cells) into the blood. By definition of being hormones...
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    the germ layers Chromophobe cell Melanotroph Chromophil Acidophil cell Basophil cell Pituitary gland Neuroendocrine cell Histology image:15002loa from...
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    specified (NOS), and signet ring cell adenocarcinoma listed from highest to lowest incidence. A carcinoid is a neuroendocrine tumor (NET) of the intestines...
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    In neonatal life, gonadal steroids influence the development of the neuroendocrine hypothalamus. For instance, they determine the ability of females to...
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  • Neuroendocrine differentiation is a term primarily used in relation to prostate cancers that display a significant neuroendocrine cell population on histopathological...
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    carcinoid tumor) is a slow-growing type of neuroendocrine tumor originating in the cells of the neuroendocrine system. In some cases, metastasis may occur...
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    family of neuroendocrine secretory proteins. As such, it is located in secretory vesicles of neurons and endocrine cells such as islet beta cell secretory...
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