How rational histochemistry produced order out of chaos in the "amorphous ground substance" (with a little help from biochemistry, biophysics etc.)

Authors
Scott, JE
Citation
Je. Scott, How rational histochemistry produced order out of chaos in the "amorphous ground substance" (with a little help from biochemistry, biophysics etc.), EUR J HIST, 42, 1998, pp. 29-34
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Medical Research Diagnosis & Treatment
Journal title
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY
ISSN journal
1121760X → ACNP
Volume
42
Year of publication
1998
Pages
29 - 34
Database
ISI
SICI code
1121-760X(1998)42:<29:HRHPOO>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
From an amorphous ground substance containing polymers of unknown compositi on arranged in no particular pattern we have in about 50 years arrived at a proposal where the very shape of the tissue and hence of the organism is d etermined by newly discovered structures, the shape modules, in the ground substance, which were demonstrated by histochemical techniques interpreted on rational biophysical and chemical principles.