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dense bodies

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dense bodies
round, amorphous bodies scattered through the cytoplasm of smooth muscle fibers; they appear to be points of attachment for myofilaments.


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Because platelets have a lower number of dense bodies, they aggregate poorly, leading to bleeding complications.
One pulsar is exotic enough, but a closely orbiting pair offers more than double the information about the extreme gravity of these dense bodies.
Myofilaments, primarily present in the periphery of the cells, were arranged in bundles and showed occasional dense bodies or spindle densities (Figure 2, C).
 
 
 
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