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Fig. 28: QF-DE image of crystal with P-fracture face of its membrane

Quick-freeze deep-etch image of a crystal. The contents of the crystal have condensed into paracrystalline planes that break into angular chunks when fractured. A portion of the P-fracture face of the membrane has many pits where IMPs have been removed. This resembles the P-face of the phagolysosome membrane or stage III of digestive vacuoles (see Digestive Vacuole chapter). dic, dictyosome; m, mitochondrion; ac, acidosome; tric, trichocyst. EM taken on 4/6/88 by C. Schroeder with Zeiss 10A TEM. Neg. 12,000X. Bar = 0.5µm.
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