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Aspects of experimental hepatocarcinogenesis


A.H. Timme

Abstract

This article, the first of a series of 5, describes the light and electron microscopical features of early foci of parenchymaI cell hyperplasia which developed in the livers of rats fed the carcinogen p-dimethylaminoazobenzene (butter yellow). The cells in the foci possessed increased numbers of free cytoplasmic ribosomes, prominent perinuclear Golgi bodies and bundles of microfilaments. These features suggested that the cells were not merely regenerative in nature but represented a definite carcinogen-induced proliferative response.

S. Afr. Med. J., 48, 698 (1974).

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