Abstract
In preneoplastic liver of rats fed the azo dye 4-dimethylaminoazobenzene, certain cellular populations are characterized by cytologic changes typical of tumor cells and appear as the sites of neoplastic transformation. With a basic dye such as toluidine blue, cytoplasmic RNA in preneoplastic foci and hepatomas stains more intensely than in surrounding tissue. In the present study, it was found that when a basic dye (hematoxylin) was combined with an acid dye (tartrazine), these areas stained differentially from the surrounding liver parenchyma. RNAse hydrolysis has shown that such staining properties might be due to the increased proportion of cytoplasmic RNA to components stainable with tartrazine in hyperbasophilic cells, while the surrounding parenchymal cells are probably distinguished by the opposite ratio.
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