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Crystalline inclusions in parathyroid gland cell nuclei of Rana temporaria were studied by electron microscopy using a specimen tilting stage. Images were analysed by optical diffraction. Results were compared with X-ray and electron microscopic data of trigonal bovine liver catalase to which a striking resemblance of the inclusions was found.
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We are grateful to Professor R. Mosebach (Giessen) for discussions, to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for a grant (La 229/4) and instruments and to Messrs. Spindler & Hoyer, Göttingen and Messrs. Rank Precision Instruments, Nürnberg for putting apparatus at our disposal and performing diffraction photographs.
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Lange, R.H., Soames, A.R. & Coleman, R. Catalase-like crystals in parathyroid gland cells of Rana temporaria L.. Cell Tissue Res. 153, 167–173 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00226605
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