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Similar structural bases for the storage and release of secretory material in adreno-medullary and β pancreatic cells

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Both in normal pancreatic β cells and in the adrenal medulla discontinuities have frequently been observed in the individual membranes surrounding secretion granules. In the β cells the edges of these hiatuses are characteristically inverted in the manner of a scroll. It is suggested that intracytoplasmic release of secretory material may occur through these membrane perforations.

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Lever, J.D., Findlay, J.A. Similar structural bases for the storage and release of secretory material in adreno-medullary and β pancreatic cells. Zeitschrift für Zellforschung 74, 317–324 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00401260

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