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FOR a long time there has been confusion in the use of the name ‘reticulin’ to describe the argyrophilic fibrous structures present as basement membrane in the parenchymatous organs and also to describe fibres which are histologically similar but which are present in developing connective tissue. Recently, however, a number of workers1–3 have shown that the basement membrane type of reticulin is a complex composed of collagen, carbohydrate and lipid which are released only after acid hydrolysis. Windrum et al. 3 have questioned the assumption that the two types of reticulin are identical. We now report evidence which suggests that they are indeed different structures.
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JACKSON, D., WILLIAMS, G. Nature of Reticulin. Nature 178, 915–916 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178915b0
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