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Morphological Changes in the Parafollicular Cells of the Rat Thyroid Glands after Administration of Calcium shown by Electron Microscopy

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THE parafollicular cells named by Nonidez1 are the second type of glandular cells which make up the mammalian thyroid glands. They occur along the basal (interstitial) surface of the follicular epithelium, and never face the colloid-containing follicular lumen. Electron microscopy has shown that this cell type differs completely in ultrastructure from the follicular cells2,3. Such a morphologically distinct cell type has been assumed to have a function distinct from that of the follicular cell, that is, the production of iodine-containing thyroid hormones.

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MATSUZAWA, T., KUROSUMI, K. Morphological Changes in the Parafollicular Cells of the Rat Thyroid Glands after Administration of Calcium shown by Electron Microscopy. Nature 213, 927–928 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213927a0

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