rhogocytes

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A form of rhogocyte — A pore cell, in molluscs, that produces hemocyanin.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of rhogocyte

    Based on electron microscopy, we recently proposed a possible pathway of hemoglobin exocytosis through the slit apparatus, and provided molecular evidence of a common phylogenetic origin of molluscan rhogocytes, insect nephrocytes and vertebrate podocytes.

    2015 October 22, “On the Ultrastructure and Function of Rhogocytes from the Pond Snail Lymnaea stagnalis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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