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The ultrastructure of embryonic chicken liver cultivated in vitro according to a technique elaborated by one of the present authors, as well as of organic chicken liver of corresponding age have been studied. With regard to growth pattern and cellular structure, the cultivated cells are in the main identical with the organic liver cells except for the endoplasmic reticulum, which is relatively poorly developed, and the mitochondria, which tend to be more spherical in the cultivated cells.
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Westman, J., Sandström, B. Electron microscopy of organic and cultivated chicken embryonic liver. Zeitschrift für Zellforschung 71, 271–282 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00335752
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