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Ultrastructural features of the mammalian adrenal medulla

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Ultrastructure of Endocrine Cells and Tissues

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The term adrenal medulla can only be applied with semantic verisimility to chromaffin cells aggregated to form a distinct mass within the adrenal glands of mammals. In lower forms the relationship of chromaffin and cortical (interrenal) elements is often less intimate, as in fishes and amphibia, or the chromaffin elements form multiple small islets scattered through-out the adrenal gland (interrenal tissue) in birds or exist as scattered islets or as a continuous envelope of cells associated with adrenal cortical tissue in reptiles (1–5).

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Coupland, R.E. (1984). Ultrastructural features of the mammalian adrenal medulla. In: Motta, P.M. (eds) Ultrastructure of Endocrine Cells and Tissues. Electron Microscopy in Biology and Medicine, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3861-1_15

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