Editing Microbody (section)

== History ==

Microbodies were first discovered and named in 1954 by Rhodin.<ref name="deduveandbaudhuin">
{{cite journal | author = de Duve C and Baudhuin P | title = Peroxisomes (Microbodies and Related Particles) | journal = Physiological Reviews | volume = 46 | pages = 323–357 | year = 1966 | issue = 2 | url=http://physrev.physiology.org/content/46/2/323.full.pdf |doi = 10.1152/physrev.1966.46.2.323 | pmid = 5325972 }}</ref> Two years later in 1956, Rouiller and Bernhard presented the first worldwide accepted images of microbodies in liver cells.<ref name="deduveandbaudhuin" /> Then in 1965, Christian de Duve and coworkers isolated microbodies from the liver of a rat. De Duve also believed that the name microbody was too general and chose the name of [[peroxisome]] because of its relationship with hydrogen peroxide.<ref name="pmid4389648">{{cite journal | author = de Duve C | title = The peroxisome: a new cytoplasmic organelle | journal = Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. | volume = 173 | issue = 30 | pages = 71–83 | year = 1969 | pmid = 4389648 | doi = 10.1098/rspb.1969.0039 | bibcode = 1969RSPSB.173...71D | s2cid = 86579094 }}</ref>  In 1967, Breidenbach and Beevers were the first to isolate microbodies from plants, which they named [[glyoxysome]]s because they were found to contain enzymes of the [[glyoxylate cycle]].