Editing Chromaffin cell (section)

==History==
:''See also [[chromophil]].''
The word "chromaffin" comes from a portmanteau of ''chrom''ium and ''affin''ity. They are named as such because they can be visualised by [[stain]]ing with [[chromium]] salts. Chromium salts oxidise and polymerise [[catecholamines]] to form a brown color, most strongly in the cells secreting noradrenaline. Chromaffin cells are also called pheochromocytes.

The [[enterochromaffin cells]] are so named because of their histological similarity to chromaffin cells (they stain yellow when treated with chromium salts), but their function is quite different and they are not derivatives of the neural crest.

[[Paraganglia]] are clusters of either chromaffin cells or [[glomus cell]]s near sympathetic ganglia.