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“THE outer segments of retinal photoreceptors consist of a stack of membraneous disks”1. The isolation of bovine retinal photoreceptor disks devoid of mitochondria and microsomes has recently been accomplished2. This communication presents a preliminary account of their lipid composition.
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FLEISCHER, S., MCCONNELL, D. Preliminary Observations on the Lipids of Bovine Retinal Outer Segment Disks. Nature 212, 1366–1367 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121366a0
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