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Experimental observations on the Opalinid infusorians with special reference to the influence of radium radiation upon the cytoplasmic inclusions
Author(s) -
Horning E. S.
Publication year - 1937
Publication title -
journal of morphology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.652
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1097-4687
pISSN - 0362-2525
DOI - 10.1002/jmor.1050610204
Subject(s) - radium , biology , cytoplasm , golgi apparatus , mitochondrion , polarity (international relations) , organism , microbiology and biotechnology , radiochemistry , biochemistry , genetics , endoplasmic reticulum , cell , chemistry
The cytoplasm of Opalinid infusorians contains two principal components; the mitochondria and the vegetative granules of the endoplasm. A third component in the form of Golgi bodies has been previously described. Under the influence of radium radiations the mitochondria are re‐orientated so that they assume a transverse polarity to the longitudinal axis of the organism. Later the mitochondria are segregated by the radiations so that they lie apart from the vegetative granules with which they are closely associated in the normal organism.