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In order to obtain further insights into the expression of the known markers of secretory neuroendocrine dense core organelles, secretogranin II (SgII), chromogranin A (CgA), and chromogranin B (CgB) during neuronal differentiation, the immunolocalization of these proteins was studied by means of double immunofluorescence in both undifferentiated and retinoic acid-differentiated SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells. The majority of undifferentiated cells was not immunolabeled for all three proteins. In the majority of differentiated cells, a clearly punctate SgII immunolabeling indicative of the presence of secretory organelles was present in the Golgi region, at the cell periphery, along the neurites and in growth cones. Only relatively few of the SgII-immunolabeled cells were also immunolabeled for CgA and CgB, and in a single cell the three proteins were not always present in the same organelles. These results, obtained in a cultured cell line, confirm the not necessarily parallel distribution of SgII, CgA, and CgB observed in different neuroendocrine tissues and suggest that SgII may be the best marker of human neuroblastoma cell differentiation.
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