Intercellular junctions in the rhesus monkey pars distalis.
Four rhesus monkey pituitary glands were examined by transmission electron microscopy. Three types of intercellular junctions, desmosomes, hemidesmosomes and zonula adherens-type junctions, were observed between adjacent granular cells, folliculo-stellate cells, and joining a folliculo-stellate cell with a granular cell. Demosomes were most commonly observed between granular cells while the zonula adherens-type junctions were generally found between the folliculo-stellate cells.
D000818:Animals; D003594:Cytoplasmic Granules / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003896:Desmosomes / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005260:Female; D000882:Haplorhini; D007365:Intercellular Junctions / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008297:Male; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000648:ultrastructure*