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| | Absorbance of Feulgen-stained Somatic Cell Nuclei |
 | | We can therefore conclude that the absorbing material, that is, deoxyribonucleic acid, is not randomly distributed and consequently that published data on the total nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid content, calculated from cytophotometric measurements of fixed tissue assuming a random distribution of the absorbing particles, are erroneous. |
 | | The linear relationship between the nuclear absorbance and the inverse nuclear surface area may simply mean that both the absorbance and the geometrical dimensions are dependent variables of a common variable as, for example, the growth process, thus : |
 | | A practical consequence of this is, as is also evident from the equation, that a simple measurement of the nuclear geometrical dimensions will yield the same information as that obtained by the far more complicated and costly photometric method. |
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