## Abstract The subjection of rats with body weight 150 Β± 10 g to complete starvation for a period of four days leads to a diminution of total protein, total lipids, blood sugar, body weight and liver weight. Lipid dystrophy develops in the liver, as well as deposition of lipofuscinβlike pigment a
Histochemical studies of the liver of the rat during embryonic development
β Scribed by Dumm, Mary E.
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1943
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 658 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0095-9898
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β¦ Synopsis
The subject of the present investigation is a histochemical description of the liver of the rat fetus and of the infant rat. The point of view from which this study was undertaken is that the inorganic composition of a tissue may be used to provide information regarding changes which occur in the morphological phases of a tissue, and in some instances, to calculate the concentrations of specific constituents in a single phase (Hastings, '40). This assumption has frequently been employed in investigations of adult tissues (Hastings, '40 ; Manery and Hastings, '39; Truax, '39), and within limits, its validity in muscle, liver, and heart is well established. Similar studies on tissues of very young and rapidly growing t-inimals are less numerous. There are none available on the rat liver during its embryonic development.
Histochemical investigations of adult liver have led to the following tentative conclusions (M anery and Hastings, '39 ; Truax, '39). The 57
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## THIRTY-THREE FIGURES \* Wistnr rats obtained from Oarworth Farms, Ine.