{"id":8070,"date":"2019-05-22T16:03:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/golgi_apparatus_-body_or_complex_or_organ\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:03:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:42","slug":"golgi_apparatus_-body_or_complex_or_organ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/golgi_apparatus_-body_or_complex_or_organ\/","title":{"rendered":"Golgi apparatus (body or complex or organ)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cell organelle consisting of a system or stack of interconnected smooth-surfaced, double-membraned vesicles (cistern) in the cytoplasm of eukaryote cells situated between two complex networks of tubules (cis and trans Golgi networks), and usually connected to the endoplasmic reticulum. &nbsp;It stores and transports lipids and (ribosomal) proteins and has a role in the formation of the cell wall. &nbsp;During spermatogenesis, the Golgi apparatus induces the formation of an acrosomal vesicle in the sperm head. &nbsp;Named after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nndb.com\/people\/732\/000125357\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.nndb.com\/people\/732\/000125357\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camillo Golgi<\/a> (1844-1926) who discovered it in 1898.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"acrosome\">Acrosome<\/a>, <a href=\"cell\">Cell<\/a>, <a href=\"cytoplasm\">Cytoplasm<\/a>, <a href=\"endoplasmic_reticulum_-er-\">Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)<\/a>, <a href=\"eukaryote_cell_-or_organism-\">Eukaryote cell (or organism)<\/a>, <a href=\"lysosomes\">Lysosomes<\/a>, <a href=\"nissl_substance\">Nissl substance<\/a>, <a href=\"organelles\">Organelles<\/a>, Vesicles  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cell organelle consisting of a system or stack of interconnected smooth-surfaced, double-membraned vesicles (cistern) in the cytoplasm of eukaryote cells situated between two complex networks of tubules (cis and trans Golgi networks), and usually connected to the endoplasmic reticulum. &nbsp;It stores and transports lipids and (ribosomal) proteins and has a role in the formation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/golgi_apparatus_-body_or_complex_or_organ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Golgi apparatus (body or complex or organ)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}