Medical dictionary. 2011.
argyrophilic — ar·gyr·o·phil·ic .är jə (.)rō fil ik, rə also ar·gyr·o·phil är jə (.)rō .fil, rə or ar·gyr·o·phile .fīl adj having an affinity for silver used of certain cells, structures, or tissues that selectively reduce silver salts to metallic silver… … Medical dictionary
enterochromaffin cells — endocrine cells whose granules stain readily with silver and chromium salts, and which are sites of synthesis and storage of serotonin. They are distributed throughout the body but are most frequently identified in the intestinal and bronchial… … Medical dictionary
L cells — 1. cells from a strain (C3H) of mouse fibroblasts grown in tissue culture for many years; employed for their ability to support replication of many types of viruses. 2. a type of argyrophilic cells with large cytoplasmic granules in the mucosa of … Medical dictionary
argentaffin cells — cells that stain readily with silver salts. Such cells occur, for example, in the crypts of Lieberkühn in the intestine. * * * enterochromaffin cells whose granules stain readily with chromium and silver salts, located in the basilar portions of… … Medical dictionary
argyrophil cells — Neuroendocrine cells that take up silver ions from a staining solution but require the addition of a reducing agent to precipitate metallic silver (unlike argentaffin cells which do not). Carcinoids of the foregut tend to be argyrophilic whereas… … Dictionary of molecular biology
Cell — The basic structural and functional unit in people and all living things. Each cell is a small container of chemicals and water wrapped in a membrane. Each cell in the human body there are 100 trillion cells in each of us contains the entire… … Medical dictionary
Fiber — The parts of plants that cannot be digested, namely complex carbohydrates. Also known as bulk or roughage. Complex carbohydrates from plants are rich in starch and fiber. Examples of plants that provide complex carbohydrates (fiber) are fresh… … Medical dictionary
Staining — is an auxiliary technique used in microscopy to enhance contrast in the microscopic image.In biochemistry it involves adding a class specific (DNA, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates) dye to a substrate to qualify or quantify the presence of a… … Wikipedia
Tissue — A tissue in medicine is not like a piece of tissue paper. It is a broad term that is applied to any group of cells that perform specific functions. A tissue in medicine need not form a layer. Thus, The bone marrow is a tissue; Connective tissue… … Medical dictionary
Cajal body — Nuclei of mouse cells (blue) containing Cajal bodies (green) visualized by fusion of p80/Coilin protein to GFP. Cajal bodies (CBs) are spherical sub organelles of 0.3 1.0 µm in diameter found in the nucleus of proliferative cells like embryonic… … Wikipedia
