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____ secretion

Holocrine
___ cell in a merocrine gland
function?

mucuous cell
secretes mucous
___ is at the apical portion of a serosu cell
secretory vesicles

what is 7?

last step. sebacyte
1?

stem cell, eventually becomes sebacyte (7)
a ____ producing cell. why? (3)

steroid producing
Lipid droplets in the cytoplasm.
• Abundant smooth ER for cholesterol synthesis.
• Spherical mitochondria with characteris
what is this

basophill
have dark purple cytoplasms

acidophils
cells with bright red or pink cytoplasm are acidophils.
what are these cells? what are they made of?

cells with clear cytoplasm are chromophobes
stem cells
degranulated chromophils
function?

herring body
in posterior pituitary
where neuropeptides from hypothalamus end up following axonal transport
identify.

Glial cells (pituicytes).

adrenal medulla
produces catecholamines
what hormones does this produce?

adrenal cortex
steroid hormones

zone glomerulosa


zona fasciulata


zona reticularis

Cells of the_____ appear foamy due to the presence of lipid droplets

zona fasciculata
secreted here?


secreted here?




identify by the secretory granules

adrenal medulla
Electron-dense secretory granules that react with chromium or silver salts (hence the name chromaffin or argentaffin).
what is missing in the right?

hypophysis

Islets of Langerhans

parafollicular cell
what is produced here? what is its function

calcitonin
inhbiits bone resorption
promotes calcification of bone





































































