Definition of "secretory" []

• Relating to or performing secretion. (adjective)

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• "In a series of extremely elegant papers he and his coworkers showed how in secretory cells the secretory proteins, produced by the ribosomes on the outside of the reticulum enter the space between its membranes, migrate to a special organelle, the Golgi complex, where they are changed to a form suitable for secretion."
• "Varespladib methyl (A-002) and A-001 are designed to inhibit a novel enzyme target known as secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2)."
• "A-002 and A-001 inhibit a novel enzyme target known as secretory phospholipase A2, or sPLA2."