secretory

Examples

• All

• In humans, the secretory glands play a key role in digestion by releasing enzymes.

• So it has its own secretory factors that tamp down the immune system.

  Andrew Huberman

• Is this a polypeptide that will become a membrane protein or part of the secretory system?

• GEMs would need to be integrated with other models, such as secretory pathways and glycosylation models.

  Academic text (2017)

• The lumen-forming cells contained many mitochondria and secretory granules.

  Academic text (1995)

• Adiponectin is an adipocyte-specific secretory protein that exhibits antiatherogenic, anti-inflammatory, and antidiabetic properties.

  Academic text (2018)

• Compared with the controls, structural changes were less evident in the two active-treatment groups, but more so in the antibiotic/steroid group, particularly with respect to mucosal metaplasia to the secretory epithelium.

  Academic text (2003)

• As a frog wipes, the tactile stimulation of its limbs pressing against its body elicits a nerve reflex that causes muscle cells to contract around secretory glands in the skin.

  Academic text (2001)

• The secretory cells in the pancreas produce important hormones like insulin.

Synonyms

G

glandular

vssecretory

• Specialized

6 6.7

Relating to small organs that make and release liquids like saliva

focuses specifically on making and releasing fluids rather than general organ function

Compounds

S

secretory organ

• Specialized

6.5

A body part that makes and releases substances into the blood or through tubes

S

secretory phase

• Specialized

7.8

The phase after ovulation when the womb lining becomes ready for an embryo

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology