Cajal body

English
Image of four oval-shaped blue nuclei containing small green dots representing Cajal bodies.
Nuclei of mouse cells (blue) containing Cajal bodies (green)

Etymology

Discovered by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish neuroscientist and histologist, in 1903.

Noun

Cajal body (plural Cajal bodies)

  1. (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
spherical membraneless nuclear body largely consisting of proteins and RNA
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