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SUBMITTER: Ishikawa T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3539816 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in genetics 20130102
Cell secretion is an important physiological process that ensures smooth metabolic activities and tissue repair as well as growth and immunological functions in the body. Apocrine secretion occurs when the secretory process is accomplished with a partial loss of cell cytoplasm. The secretory materials are contained within secretory vesicles and are released during secretion as cytoplasmic fragments into the glandular lumen or interstitial space. The recent finding that the non-synonymous single ...[more]