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Application of dark field microscopy to sections fixed with picric acid — formalin and stained with crotonaldehydefuchsin allows the demonstration of neurosecretory granules in the neurones of the suprachiasmatic nuclei of normal rats.
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Bock, R., Pera, F. Detection of aldehydefuchsin-positive neurosecretory granules in the cells of the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the rat. Histochemistry 58, 335–338 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00495390
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