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. 1956 Jul 25;2(4):347–350. doi: 10.1083/jcb.2.4.347

GLOBOID STRUCTURES IN THE CYTOPLASM OF RAPIDLY GROWING HELA CELLS

Carl G Harford 1, Alice Hamlin 1, Esther Parker 1, Theodore van Ravenswaay 1
PMCID: PMC2229672  PMID: 13357565

Abstract

During the course of electron microscopic study of rapidly growing uninfected HeLa cells, it was found that numerous globoid bodies occurred in the cytoplasm. Reasons are given for suspecting that these structures are mitochondria.

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