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Pancreatic APUD cells in older chick embryos, with special reference to their identity

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Pancreatic APUD cells showing formaldehyde-induced fluorescence in Black Australorp chick embryos of nine to eighteen days of incubation, proved, on subsequent staining and silver impregnation, to be A, B, D and, from sixteen days, enterochromaffin (EC) cells. EC and D cells were scattered in the exocrine parenchyma, the latter cells increasing with time. Some groups of B cells were associated with large A islets from the ninth day of incubation onwards. The composition of A islets (A and some D cells) and B islets (B and some D cells) and the distribution attained (A islets in the splenic and third lobes; B islets in all lobes), accords with the situation reported for adults.

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Andrew, A. Pancreatic APUD cells in older chick embryos, with special reference to their identity. Histochemistry 49, 213–219 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00492376

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