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Many of the histochemical tests recommended for the detection of amyloid a pathological deposit in animal tissues have been found to be useful to demonstrate carbohydrate-protein yolk bodies in the oocytes of amphipods and turbellarians. The Congo red tests are especially important. However, the apparent similarity cannot perhaps be stressed too far because of the failure of oocyte yolk bodies to react positively to alcian blue or Hale’s iron test or even to iodine test to all of which amyloid is more or less positive.
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Communicated by Prof. K. Pampapathi Rao,f.a.sc.
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Shyamasundari, K. Histochemical recognition of carbohydrate-protein yolk bodies in invertebrate oocytes. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 76, 258–261 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03051330
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03051330