Suspensions of islet cells were prepared by shaking pancreatic islets from non-inbred ob/ob mice in a Ca2+-free buffer. The cells were incubated with or without 20 mM-alloxan, and subsequently with Trypan Blue. The uptake of Trypan Blue by cell nuclei was analysed by microscope photometry and by counting the frequency of cells appearing stained on visual inspection. Cells classified as stained ...

THEt eratogenic activity of several disazo dyes during rat embryogenesis has been investigated by Wilson (1955). In addition to the marked teratogenicity of trypan blue Wilson also demonstrated that Evans blue was moderately active and that Niagara blue 4B and Niagara sky blue 6B were possibly active. On the other hand, several other closely related disazo dyes such as Congo red and azo blue we...

Pregnant rats were injected intraperitoneally with a teratogenic dose of trypan blue (14 mg/100 g or 20 mg/100 g body weight) on the eighth day of gestation. Fetal blood was collected from control and experimental fetuses on the twentieth day of pregnancy. Serum was obtained from pooled blood samples of two to three fetuses. Paper electrophoresis was carried out in a Spinco model R system using...

The yolk of insect eggs consists largely of proteins derived pinocytotically from the maternal blood (Telfer, 1965). Vitellogenic oocytes can also sequester the acidic colloid trypan blue: when injected into the blood, the dye, like the blood proteins, is deposited in yolk spheres in the cortex of the oocyte. This behavior of trypan blue was first described in the scorpian fly by Ramamurty (196...

When trypan blue is injected intravenously, the animal appears blue within a few minutes, not only in its integument, but in the internal organs as well. 12 or more hours after the administration of the dye, there are innumerable granules within macrophages and other colloidopexic cells, easily demonstrable by ordinary histological technique. But the animal is blue long before such granules are...

Four media, Staib's Guizotia abyssinica, trypan blue, and Staib's with 2 and 10 mg of methyl violet per liter, were compared for the selective and differential isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans from environmental samples. Trypan blue medium allowed for the differentiation of C. neoformans colonies from Candida albicans colonies several days earlier than did Staib's medium. The addition of me...