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secretory pathway
Production & exportation of a physiologically active substance (cytokine, hormone, enzyme) by a cell or a gland, including mucous secretions of epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract.
Elements of the intracellular secretory pathway include:
1) maturation of secreted proteins & peptides in the GOLGI
2) transport & storage in secretory vesicles
3) signals resulting in fusion of secretory vesicles with the plasma membrane
Related
body secretion
secreted protein
Specific
neurosecretion
General
secretion
molecular pathway
Database Correlations
KEGG correlations
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999