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DURING the course of experimental production of melanomata in hamsters1,2 and the study of red fluorescence in tumours3,4, we discovered, by chance, that the costo-vertebral spot of some of our normal hamsters showed a well-marked red fluorescence under ultra-violet radiation. Red fluorescence has been observed in the Harderian gland of hamsters and some other rodents5, but its significance is obscure. Red fluorescence is also seen in many tumours3,4. In all these cases the red fluorescence is due to the presence of porphyrins.
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ILLMAN, O., GHADIALLY, F. Red Fluorescence in Costo-vertebral Spot of Hamsters. Nature 210, 843 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210843a0
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