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Golgi Apparatus by Phase Contrast Microscopy

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THE phase contrast optical system1,2,3,4 is little known in Britain, and not many observations5,6 of biological material by means of it have been reported. The system enables many structural details of living cells to be seen without preliminary treatment of any kind.

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    A. T. BRICE, ROZA P. JONES & J. D. SMYTH

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BRICE, A., JONES, R. & SMYTH, J. Golgi Apparatus by Phase Contrast Microscopy. Nature 157, 553–554 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157553b0

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