| Abstract: | A cytofluorometric study of the total glycogen and its fractions in rat liver cells using the fluorescent PAS reaction was made during 1--7 days of the postnatal development. It was established that glycogen content was small on the first two days of development. The glycogen content increases only on the third day after birth. The glycogen of the rat liver cells during a first week of the postnatal development is different from that detected in adult liver cells in two aspects: in 3 day old hepatocytes soluble and stable glycogen fractions are equal, while in adult rat liver cells the former makes 80--90%; during the first week of the postnatal development, the stable fraction of rat liver cell is more labile, while in the adult rat liver the soluble fraction of glycogen is more labiles. |
