title: INTERCELLULAR CHANNELS IN THE SALT-SECRETING GLANDS OF MARINE TURTLES.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D001717:Birds; D003585:Cell Biology; D004583:Electrons; D006025:Glycosaminoglycans; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D007765:Lacrimal Apparatus; D008853:Microscopy; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D012104:Reptiles; D012106:Research; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D014426:Turtles
chemical_list: D006025:Glycosaminoglycans; D012965:Sodium Chloride
keywords: CYTOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL LAB STUDY; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LACRIMAL APPARATUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDES; REPTILES; SODIUM CHLORIDE