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Glycogen of rat liver was well preserved throughout histological blocks and was not displaced in the cells when pieces of liver were fixed in ice-cold picro-alcohol-formalin. After fixation, liver sections were stained by the Bauer-Feulgen method and the optical density of each section was measured on a Photovolt electronic photometer. Chemical determinations were made of the glycogen contained in other pieces of the same livers. The livers of rats undergoing progressive starvation from 6 to 48 hours showed good correlation between the chemically and histologically determined glycogen concentrations.
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