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IT has long been known that small round corpuscles may be found around the blood vessels of the central nervous system in subjects of advanced age. As the staining properties of these bodies are similar to those of starch, Virchow called them corpora amylacea. Several authors have examined them in attempts to determine their origin, but without definite result. The present contribution describes an attempt to define the morphology and some of the chemical properties of corpora amylacea, using the polarizing microscope as well as the periodic acid–leucofuchsin method1.
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MOLNAR, J. Corpora amylacea in the Central Nervous System. Nature 168, 39 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168039a0
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