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The development of the chromaffin cell lineage from the neural crest.
Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical - 17 Nov 2009
Huber Katrin, Kalcheim Chaya, Unsicker Klaus
Abstract excerpt
Chromaffin cells are neuroendocrine cells, which are highly specialized for the synthesis and release of multiple hormones. Like sympathetic neurons, which are essential, inter alia, for neural control of vascular tone, they are derivatives of the neural crest, a transient structure at the dorsal surface of the embryonic neural tube. Chromaffin cells and sympathetic neurons have many features in common, but are...
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