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Abstract
The ultrastructure of the rat pineal gland was studied from 75 days until 10 months of age. Type I pinealocytes of young adults showed nuclei with dispersed chromatin, numerous infoldings of the nuclear envelope and well developed nucleoli. The cytoplasm displayed many mitochondria and clusters of smooth endoplasmic reticulum. With increasing age, there was a clear increase in the number of dense bodies or lysosomes in the Type I pinealocyte. The changes in the Type II pinealocytes with age were mainly in nuclear shape and in the appearance of lipofuscin granules.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6735903 PMCID: PMC1164325
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Anat ISSN: 0021-8782 Impact factor: 2.610