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Golgi Bodies in the Male Germ-Cells of Vaginula maculata

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RECENT works of Baker1 and Thomas2,3 have revived Parat's4 vacuome theory of the Golgi apparatus in an amended form. According to them, living cells contain spheroids stainable with neutral red, each spheroid being invested with a lipoidal pellicle. Thomas3 has claimed to show that the dictyosomes and networks, produced in nerve-cells by methods involving the use of osmium tetroxide and silver nitrate, are caused by the over-impregnation of mitochondria and spheroids and unspecific precipitation of silver and osmium. Consistently with this view Baker has proposed a new term, ‘lipochondria’, to replace the ‘Golgi apparatus’, as nothing corresponding to the network originally described by Golgi exists in the living cell. Thomas3 has attempted a comparison of the Golgi elements of the male germ-cells of gastropod molluscs and those of nerve-cells in the light of his own view of the structure of these inclusions.

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SRIVASTAVA, M. Golgi Bodies in the Male Germ-Cells of Vaginula maculata . Nature 172, 689–690 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172689a0

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