Hi doctors, regarding to zona riticulars in adrenal cortex , how do these nuclei even produce hormons while they are pyknotic, , ? giant thank,

Sloppy language: I'm glad you're reading closely. When a pathologists says "pyknotic nucleus", that cells is very dead. Some anatomists use the term more loosely for any cell with a preponderance of heterochromatin even if it's alive. We pathologists can't use any other term and wish all anatomists would say "condensed" for such nuclei instead of "pyknotic" -- it's the term other scientists use.