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HOLLINSHEAD1 demonstrated with the Severinghaus staining technique the presence of fuchsinophil granules in the cytoplasm of the carotid-body cells in the cat. Later on2, he showed that these granules disappear from the mouse carotid-body cells in cases of lethal anoxia. Hollinshead related this disappearance tentatively with the state of activity of the carotid-body cells, as it is known that anoxia stimulates powerfully the release of nerve impulses in this organ.
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CHOWDHARY, D. The Carotid Labyrinth of Rana tigrina. Nature 167, 1074 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/1671074b0
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