PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

R A ELLIS

Publications and source records attributed to R A ELLIS.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources

INTERCELLULAR CHANNELS IN THE SALT-SECRETING GLANDS OF MARINE TURTLES.

Long, pleomorphic microvilli project from the walls of adjacent secretory cells in the lacrymal glands of sea turtles, and a substance identified histochemically as a mucopolysaccharide fills the intercellular channels. These features are not characteristic of the principal secretory cells in the salt glands of marine birds.

Animals↗