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EXPERIMENTS have been made with five specimens of methylene blue as a vital stain for the spermatocytes of Helix aspersa. The specimens were an old German ‘polychrome methylene blue', and four others, ‘pure methylene blue', and just ‘methylene blue'.
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GATENBY, J., MOUSSA, T. Methylene Blue as a Vital Stain for the Golgi Apparatus. Nature 162, 736 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162736a0
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