secrete
Secretory vesicles carry the enzymes to the cell surface and release their contents.
With no progesterone production, no secretory endometrium is formed.
Doctors pinpointed the cancer as an invasive secretory carcinoma.

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secretory
This is the phase of maximal enzyme secretory activity in the cell and is sustained for several days.
The accumulation of polymers within the secretory pathway leads to hepatocyte death and, ultimately, to liver cirrhosis.
The precise mechanisms underlying pregnancy-induced changes of bile secretory function are not known.
The mitochondria occupied a basal position within the tegumental matrix (fig. 2), contrasting with the secretory bodies which were evenly distributed throughout the outer syncytium.
Inheritance of a parotid secretory protein in mice and its use in determining salivary amylase quantitative variants.
The high proteinase activity of excretory+secretory products may destroy the host tissue and interfere with the host defence system.
On primary exposure they observed an inflammatory reaction provoked by developing larvae, their excretory/secretory products and sheaths left behind after moulting.
All such secretory products have the potential to be used as non-invasive markers of embryo well-being and developmental competence.
Once the fluke has reached the immunologically ' safe ' environment of the bile duct, such a high level of secretory body production is not necessary.
The granular secretory bodies also exhibited marked differences in electron density, varying from electron lucent (fig. 2), to electron dense (fig. 3).
The spinous body tegument begins to lose its spines and most of its common secretory bodies at about 8 mm distance from the nephridiopore tegument.
Fine structural aspects of secretory processes in a pentastomid arthropod parasite in its mouse and rattlesnake hosts.
The secretory apparatus of the aleurone then proliferates, supporting increased hydrolase synthesis and secretion to degrade the starchy endosperm.
Isolated porcine ovarian follicles as a model for the study of hormone and growth factor action on ovarian secretory activity.
The atrium lining is not continuous with the body tegument and possesses specific secretory inclusions and a thick glycocalyx.
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