Camillo Golgi

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Portrait photograph of Bartolomeo Emilio Camillo Golgi, Italian scientist with a large mustache, wearing a dark suit and white shirt, facing slightly to his left.

Diagram of the Golgi apparatus showing its stacked, curved membranes with labeled parts including cisternae, cis face, trans face, lumen, and various vesicles involved in cellular transport and secretion.

What is the Golgi apparatus?

Camillo Golgi: Media

Italian physician and cytologist

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What is the Golgi apparatus?

What is the Golgi apparatus?

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Portrait photograph of Bartolomeo Emilio Camillo Golgi, Italian scientist with a large mustache, wearing a dark suit and white shirt, facing slightly to his left.

The Golgi apparatus was observed in 1897 by Italian cytologist Camillo Golgi

In Camillo Golgi's early studies of nervous tissue, he had established a staining...

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Diagram of the Golgi apparatus showing its stacked, curved membranes with labeled parts including cisternae, cis face, trans face, lumen, and various vesicles involved in cellular transport and secretion.

The Golgi apparatus plays an important role in the modification and transport of proteins

A membrane-bound organelle of eukaryotic cells, the Golgi apparatus is made up of...

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