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Fig. 53: thin section comparison of vesicle and DV membranes

A comparison of thin sections of cross-sectioned membranes of the three vesicle populations and the DV-I, II, III and IV membranes with their glycocalyx linings of polysaccharides from thin regular coats in A and B to a thick regular coat in E and more variable coats in C, D and E. DVC, discoidal vesicle; AC, acidosome; SL secondary lysosome; er, endoplasmic reticulum. This plate was published as Fig. 1 in Fok and Allen, In Paramecium, H.-D. Gortz, ed., Springer Verlag, New York, pp. 301-324, 1988. Also in Eur. J. Cell Biol. 55-149-155, 1984.
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