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IT is well known that in numerous Protozoa, the contractile vacuole is associated with an osmiophile cortex, which is believed to be homologous with the Golgi apparatus of metazoan cells. In Paramecium, it has been shown by Nassonow1 that the secretory canals leading into the contractile vacuoles are osmiophilic in nature, and are considered to represent the Golgi apparatus in this form. Although many Protozoa possess similar canalicular systems, canals with osmiophile walls have never since been demonstrated in any other Protozoon, although a great number have been investigated.
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Nassonow, D., Arch. Mikr. Anat., 103 (1924).
Gatenby, J. B., and Smyth, J. D., Quart. J. Micro. Sci., 81 (1940).
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SMYTH, J. Golgi Apparatus in Astasia Harrisii. Nature 151, 110 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151110a0
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