![Sample our Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health journals, sign in here to start your FREE access for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5944/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Medicine-Dentistry-Nursing-Allied-Health.jpg"})
Abstract
Most of the structural constituents of human platelets have been well characterized in ultrastructural studies over the past five decades. However, some structures occur rarely and have not been reported previously. The present article describes an organelle bounded by a unit membrane and filled with particles of glycogen. For that reason we have called this organelle the 'glycosome'. Similarities and differences between glycosomes, alpha-granules and tubular inclusions are discussed.