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Lamellar bodies are stacks of parallel cisternae of approximately regular spacing derived from ergastoplasm. Their occurrence was studied in various nervous and epithelial cells of different animal species in both normal and diseased subjects. This organelle appears to be, at least for some cell types, a normal cytoplasmic feature. The number of lamellar bodies increases in some pathologic conditions and when the cell metabolism is elevated.
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Bestetti, G., Rossi, G.L. The occurrence of cytoplasmic lamellar bodies in normal and pathologic conditions. Acta Neuropathol 49, 75–78 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00692224
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