Home › Entities › cellular_component › cortical granule

cortical granule

secretory vesicle that is stored under the cell membrane of an egg. These vesicles fuse with the egg plasma membrane as part of egg activation and are part of the block to polyspermy
Thing cellular_component Q16965740
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

cortical granule

Summary

cortical granule is a cellular component[1]. It draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (cellular_component category, ranking #133 of 301).[2]

Key Facts

  • cortical granule's instance of is recorded as cellular component[3].
  • cortical granule's subclass of is recorded as secretory granule[4].
  • cortical granule's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ztdbw_[5].
  • cortical granule's Gene Ontology ID is recorded as GO:0060473[6].
  • cortical granule's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/cortical-granule[7].
  • cortical granule's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0060473[8].
  • cortical granule's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as cortical-granules[9].
  • cortical granule's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779771984[10].
  • cortical granule's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2779771984[11].

Why It Matters

cortical granule draws 5 Wikipedia views per month (cellular_component category, ranking #133 of 301).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). cortical granule. Retrieved October 5, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/cortical-granule
MLA “cortical granule.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 5 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/cortical-granule.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cortical-granule_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cortical granule}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cortical-granule}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-05}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): cortical granule — https://4ort.xyz/entity/cortical-granule (retrieved 2026-10-05)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/cortical-granule · Last refreshed: