Meaning of pinacocyte | Babel Free

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Any of a group of flattened polygonal cells that together make up the pinacoderm in the dermal epithelium of sponges.

Examples

“Minchin (1896, 1898, 1908) also concluded that the pinacocytes could leave⟳ the dermal epithelium and become⟳ calcoblasts in both larva and adult sponge.”

“As you can see⟳ in Fig 27.7, sponges have⟳ only three types of cells in their bodies: pinacocytes (epithelial cells), choanocytes (collar cells) and amoebocytes (amoeboid cells).”

“Despite this, in some studies the origin of new pinacocytes is not clear or is disputed (Wilson and Penney, 1930; Borojevic and Lévi, 1965).”

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