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Somatostatin-like immunofluorescence has been found by immunostaining in cells of the bile duct mucosa and pancreatic islet parenchyma of the hagfish, Myxine glutinosa, and the islet lobules of the lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis.
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We are grateful to Dr. Alan Thorpe, Queen Mary College, London University for the gift of antiteleost insulin serum
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Van Noorden, S., Östberg, Y. & Pearse, A.G.E. Localization of somatostatin-like immunoreactivity in the pancreatic islets of the hagfish, Myxine glutinosa and the lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis . Cell Tissue Res. 177, 281–285 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00221088
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