Dense granule

Dense granule
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Identifiers
Latin	granulum delta
Code	TH H2.00.04.1.03006
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

Dense granules (also known as dense bodies or delta granules) are specialized secretory organelles.

In unicellular organisms

They are found in animals and in unicellular organisms including Apicomplexa protozoans.

They are also found in Entamoeba.^[1]

In multicellular organisms

Components

The dense granules of human platelets contain adenosine diphosphate (ADP), adenosine triphosphate (ATP), ionized calcium (which is necessary for several steps of the coagulation cascade), histamine and serotonin.^[2]

Clinical significance

A deficiency of CD63 can be associated with Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome.^[3]

See also

• Platelet alpha-granule
• Dense bodies

References

1. James Joseph Marr; Timothy W. Nilsen; Richard Komuniecki (2003). Molecular medical parasitology. Academic Press. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-0-12-473346-6. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
2. Stuart H. Orkin; David G. Nathan; David Ginsburg; A. Thomas Look (2009). Nathan and Oski's hematology of infancy and childhood. Elsevier Health Sciences. pp. 1386–. ISBN 978-1-4160-3430-8. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
3. Nishibori M, Cham B, McNicol A, Shalev A, Jain N, Gerrard J (1993). "The protein CD63 is in platelet dense granules, is deficient in a patient with Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, and appears identical to granulophysin.". J Clin Invest. 91 (4): 1775–82. doi:10.1172/JCI116388. PMC 288158. PMID 7682577.