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Rhombic dodecahedral secretory granules in glucagon producing islet cells

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By tilting experiments in the electron microscope evidence was found for crystalline islet A2-granules of Xiphophorus helleri H. to be rhombic dodecahedral and thus to belong to the cubic system.

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  1. Elektronenmikroskopische Abteilung, Anatomisches Institut der Universität, Gießen

    Rainer H. Lange

  2. Laboratoire de Zoologie et d'Embryologie Expérimentale, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

    Catherine Klein

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We are grateful to Professor R. Mosebach, Gießen for his advice.

Sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (La 229/4).

Fellow of Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.

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Lange, R.H., Klein, C. Rhombic dodecahedral secretory granules in glucagon producing islet cells. Cell Tissue Res. 148, 561–563 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00221939

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