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IN the skin of mice painted with chemical carcinogens a remarkable accumulation of mast cells is usually observed in the altered dermis. Cramer and Simpson1 first observed that the accumulating mast cells acquire a strong primary golden-yellow fluorescence in ultra-violet light, a property which is not possessed by normal skin mast cells of mouse.
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CHIECO-BIANCHI, L., FIORE-DONATI, L., PENNELLI, N. et al. Mast Cell Reaction and 5-Hydroxytryptamine Content in the Skin of Syrian Golden Hamsters painted with 9 : 10-Dimethyl-1 : 2-benzanthracene. Nature 199, 293–294 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199293a0
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