Definition of Chromaffin. Meaning of Chromaffin. Synonyms of Chromaffin

- Chromaffin may refer to: Chromaffin cells, neuroendocrine cells in the adrenal medulla. Chromophil cells, hormone producing cells showing chromaffin granules...
- Chromaffin cells, also called pheochromocytes (or phaeochromocytes), are neuroendocrine cells found mostly in the medulla of the adrenal glands in mammals...
- adrenaline. Little adrenaline is found in other tissues, mostly in scattered chromaffin cells and in a small number of neurons that use adrenaline as a neurotransmitter...
- centre of each adrenal gland, and is surrounded by the adrenal cortex. The chromaffin cells of the medulla are the body's main source of the catecholamines...
- cortex. It is the innermost part of the adrenal gland, consisting of chromaffin cells that secrete catecholamines, including epinephrine (adrenaline)...
- ganglia. They are essentially of two types: (1) chromaffin or sympathetic paraganglia made of chromaffin cells and (2) nonchromaffin or parasympathetic...
- posterior pituitary. The adrenal medulla produces adrenomedullary hormones in chromaffin cells, cells which are very similar in structure to post-synaptic sympathetic...
- Compartment pH Gastric acid 1.5–3.5 Lysosomes 4.5 Human skin 4.7 Granules of chromaffin cells 5.5 Urine 6.0 Breast milk 7.0–7.45 Cytosol 7.2 Blood (natural pH)...
- the chromaffin cells in the adrenal medulla, which secrete epinephrine and norepinephrine into the bloodstream. Some[who?] believe that chromaffin cells...
- Pheochromocytoma is a rare tumor of the adrenal medulla composed of chromaffin cells and is part of the paraganglioma (PGL) family of tumors, being defined...