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In the colonic epithelium of the chicken, glycoconjugates have been studied by means of selected histochemical methods of light and electron microscopy. According to the results obtained, most of the colonic goblet cells contained acidic and neutral glycoconjugates with sulphate and vicinal diol groupings, α-D-mannose and α-D-glucose residues and sialic acid-galactose dimers. These goblet cells were found to undergo changes in histochemical reactivity during upward migration along the crypts; α-D-mannose and α-D-glucose residues and terminal sialic acidgalactose dimers increased in amount. The striated border of the colonic columnar cells has, likewise, been found to contain such glycoconjugates as were similar in reactivity to those of the goblet cells. The histophysiological significances of glycoconjugates involved in the chicken colonic epithelium have been discussed with special reference to the functional activities of the carbohydrates.
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Suprasert, A., Fujioka, T. & Yamada, K. The histochemistry of glycoconjugates in the colonic epithelium of the chicken. Histochemistry 86, 491–497 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00500622
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