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CLAUDE BERNARD, in 1859, described the abundant glycogen in the embryonic epidermis of several mammals (pig, cow and sheep)1 and, in his last course of lectures2, integrated these observations with the rest of his extensive studies on the histochemistry of glycogen. Later during the nineteenth century, the glycogen of embryonic epidermis was studied in some detail3, but there appears to have been little recent work on this phenomenon, the significance of which remains unexplained.
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BRADFIELD, J. Glycogen of Vertebrate Epidermis. Nature 167, 40–41 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167040b0
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