1. The hepatic reticulo-endothelial cell population is generally assumed to increase in size, along with the liver, during ageing in rats. However, this has not been rigorously established. 2. Using electron microscopy and stereological techniques, the present study has shown that the volume densities of hepatocytes and Kupffer cells (and probably also of endothelial cells, fat storing cells and the extracellular space) of the livers of female Sprague-Dawley rats are the same at 2 and 24-25 months of age. 3. This result indicates that the increase in size of the liver during ageing in the rat is associated with an equivalent increase in the volume of each cell population and the extracellular space.
An HPLC method is described for the detection of caramel color by measuring the level of 5-(hydroxymethyl)-2-furaldehyde (5-HMF). For the several products of caramelization examined, 5-HMF was the most sensitive indicator of the presence of caramel. The method specifies a reverse phase C18 column, a UV detector set at 277 nm, and a methanol-water gradient to separate 5-HMF from interfering substances. Other flavor compounds resolved by the same gradient are vanillin, ethyl vanillin, coumarin, benzaldehyde, caffeine, anethole, theobromine, and cinnamaldehyde.
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