On the Mitochondria, Ribonucleic Acid, Acid Phosphatase and Polysaccharide of Liver Cells of a Fish (Oryzias latipes) during Starvation

III On Polysaccharide

Abstract

1. The changes of polysaccharide of liver cells of Oryzias latipes during starvain was observed on the tenth, the twentieth and the thirtieth day by periodic acid-Schiff's reagent method.
2. Glycogen occupies the greater part of polysaccharide, part of which is distribute diffusely within cytoplasm, and another part of which exists in the form of a network. Nuclei lack glycogen.
3. Polysaccharide decreases on the tenth day of starvation, and becomes progressively less on the twentieth and the thirtieth days in proportion to the progress of starvation.