By Kazumasa Kurosumi (auth.), P. M. Motta M.D., Ph.D. (eds.)

Innovative microscopic concepts, brought over the past 20 years, have contributed a lot to making a brand new photo of the dynamic structure of the telephone, that may now be extra precisely correlated with particular biochemical and physiopathological occasions. those advancements have resulted in major advances in our knowing of the physiomorphological and pathological facets of the secretory mechanism, in addition to the pharmacologic equipment used to manage, experimentally, the functionality of exocrine and endocrine glands. the mixing of recent ultrastructural tools corresponding to freeze-fracture/etching, immunocytochemistry, scanning and high-voltage electron microscopy, cytoautoradiography, and so on. , has confirmed to be of serious worth while utilized to the research of endocrine cells and tissues. simply because info in this subject has seemed in numerous clinical and clinical journals, this publication: (1) reports the result of an integrative strategy offering a entire ultrastructural account of the most facets of the sphere; (2) issues out gaps or arguable issues in our wisdom; and (3) outlines pertinent instructions for destiny examine. The chapters, ready via well-known specialists within the box, current conventional info at the subject in a concise demeanour and, with a worthwhile choice of unique illustrations, convey what the combination of recent microscopic equipment can give a contribution to the topic by way of new ideas. This quantity may be helpful to phone biologists, anatomists, embryologists, histologists, pharmacologists, pathologists, and, in fact, endocrinologists. it's going to even be of curiosity to scholars, practitioners of drugs, and to all others facing medical examine and diagnosis.