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Observations on the fine structure of rat liver cells in extrahepatic cholestasis

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  1. The Department of Pathology, Banting Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Jan W. Steiner, John S. Carruthers & S. Robert Kalifat

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Supported in part by the Medical Research Council of Canada (MA-785) and in part by the Atkinson Charitable Foundation, Toronto, Ontario.

Interne des Hôpitaux de Paris and Research Fellow of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society. — The authors wish to thank Professor A. C. Ritchie for his assistance with editing the manuscript. Thanks are also due to Miss Barbara Lambert, Mrs. Barbara Shier, Mr. G. J. Doornewaard for their excellent technical assistance, and to Mrs. Jean Cetkovski for preparation of the article.

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Steiner, J.W., Carruthers, J.S. & Kalifat, S.R. Observations on the fine structure of rat liver cells in extrahepatic cholestasis. Zeitschrift für Zellforschung 58, 141–159 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00320181

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