pulmonary neuroendocrine body
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corpuscular, organoid structures composed of PNECs, found as distinctive innervated clusters only within intrapulmonary airways, where they appear concentrated at airway branch points; NEBs reach from the basement membrane to the airway lumen and are thought to function as oxygen sensors. [ ]
Term info
Label
pulmonary neuroendocrine body
Synonyms
- NEB
- pulmonary neuroepithelial body
Subsets
pheno_slim
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uberon
id
UBERON:0010002
Term relations
Subclass of:
- endoderm-derived structure
- part of some lung epithelium
- contributes to morphology of some lung epithelium