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Interdigitating cells are demonstrated as a special type of fixed cell in the periarteriolar lymphocytic sheaths of the human spleen. These cells show typical ultrastructural features as well as a characteristic enzyme histochemical pattern that distinguish them from other reticular cells in the splenic white pulp.
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Heusermann, U., Stutte, H.J. & Müller-Hermelink, H.K. Interdigitating cells in the white pulp of the human spleen. Cell Tissue Res. 153, 415–417 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00229168
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00229168