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Cytochemical localization of acid phosphatase in striated muscle

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Normal skeletal and cardiac striated muscle from adult rats was incubated for the cytochemical detection of acid phosphatase activity with cerium as the capture metal. Results from these experiments show that normal striated muscle has a greater number of acid phosphatase-positive structures, which are presumed to be lysosomes, than has been indicated by several previous cytochemical studies.

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  1. T. Okada

    Present address: Department of Anatomy, Kochi Medical School, Kochi, Japan

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  1. Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    T. Okada, J. M. Robinson & M. J. Karnovsky

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Supported in part by grants AI 17945 and HL 17747 from the United States Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health

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Okada, T., Robinson, J.M. & Karnovsky, M.J. Cytochemical localization of acid phosphatase in striated muscle. Histochemistry 85, 177–183 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00494801

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