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An Electron Microscope Study of the Intercellular Contacts between the Erythroblasts of Patients with Hypersiderotic Bone Marrows
Author(s) -
Wickramasinghe S. N.,
Bush Valerie
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of haematology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1600-0609
pISSN - 0036-553X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0609.1977.tb02714.x
Subject(s) - electron microscope , ferritin , intracellular , pathology , membrane , chemistry , biology , biophysics , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , physics , optics , biochemistry
When stained and unstained sections of hypersiderotic marrow fragments are examined in the electron microscope, some of the ferritin molecules present between a variable proportion of the erythroblasts are found to be aligned more or less transversely. These linearly arranged ferritin molecules are particularly evident in regions in which the opposing cell membranes have been sectioned obliquely and may be confused with the septa‐containing intercellular junctions characteristically present between some types of invertebrate epithelial cells.