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IN 1941 caspersson, Landström-Hyden and Aquilonius1 demonstrated that the chromidial substance contained in the pancreatic exocrine cells and in other serous secreting elements had a typical absorption spectrum in the ultra-violet region with a peak in 2600 A. As this substance showed a negative Feulgen reaction, they concluded that it is a nucleoprotein with a high content of nucleotides of ribonucleic type. In the apical part of the cell containing the granules, they found absorption curves of a protein type, but with a concentration much lower than in the basal zone ; they explain this difference as due to the dilution of the secretion.
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DE ROBERTIS, E. Absorption Spectra of the Exocrine Cells of the Pancreas. Nature 157, 264–265 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157264b0
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