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Nonrandom distribution of goblet cells around the circumference of colonie crypt

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The ascending colon of the guinea pig was cut serially and stained with the periodic-acid-Schiff-hematoxylin method. Maps of transversely sectioned crypts were prepared using a microscopic eye-piece projector. The number and angular positions of goblet cells were mapped around the circumference of transverse sections of the crypt. A method of the “statistics of the circumference” was introduced in order to assess the pattern of distribution of goblet cells. This distribution was found to be significantly nonrandom. The nonrandomness is such that the goblet cells tend to occupy positions of the crypt circumference in maximal distances from each other.

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  1. Department of Histology and Embryology, Institute of Biostructure, School of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

    A. Góralski,  W. Sawicki & Olena Blaton

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  1. A. Góralski
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Financial support was obtained from the Polish Academy of Sciences (proj. no. 328/VI).

The authors are indebted to Dr. M. Pindor, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw, for helpful discussions.

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Góralski, A., Sawicki, W. & Blaton, O. Nonrandom distribution of goblet cells around the circumference of colonie crypt. Cell Tissue Res. 160, 551–556 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00225771

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