Cajal body
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[edit]![Image of four oval-shaped blue nuclei containing small green dots representing Cajal bodies.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Cajal_bodies.jpg/220px-Cajal_bodies.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Discovered by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish neuroscientist and histologist, in 1903.
Noun
[edit]Cajal body (plural Cajal bodies)
- (cytology) A spherical membraneless nuclear body largely consisting of proteins and RNA, found in the nucleus of proliferative cells like embryonic cells and tumor cells, or metabolically active cells like neurons.
- Synonym: coiled body
Translations
[edit]spherical membraneless nuclear body largely consisting of proteins and RNA