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Macromolecular particles of polyglucose synthesized under histochemical conditions in the endothelial cells of rabbit blood vessels

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New polyglucose was synthesized artificially under histochemical conditions from glucose 1-phosphate by phosphorylase and branching glycosyltransferase in the endothelial cells of rabbit blood vessels. In electron micrographs it appeared as a large macromolecular structure of spheroidal branching bodies. The polyglucose particles were much larger in size than those observed previously. They were synthesized in intracellular cytoplasmic matrices and also within nuclei.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, Japan

    Tadao Takeuchi & Haruhiko Miyayama

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Takeuchi, T., Miyayama, H. Macromolecular particles of polyglucose synthesized under histochemical conditions in the endothelial cells of rabbit blood vessels. Histochem J 5, 451–461 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01012002

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