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NEUROSECRETORY cells of the adrenal medulla are difficult to study by electrophysiological and pharmacological methods, because of their obscure situation and susceptibility to many forms of physiological stress. For this reason, a simple method of cultivation and fixation of the adrenal gland has been developed in this laboratory. The adrenal gland is difficult to culture1 and there have been only two reports specifically dealing with medullary cells in culture since 19352,3. I have been interested in the morphology of neurosecretory cells in the “resting state”, that is, with no influence from the central nervous system.
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MANUELIDIS, L. Adrenal Gland in Tissue Culture. Nature 227, 619–621 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227619a0
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