On the basis of cytochemical tests, the gram-staining reaction of superficial human oral epithelial cells, principally perinuclear in distribution, was found to be caused by certain undetermined moieties of cytoplasmic amino acids rather than by nucleic acids, a possibility suggested by its intracellular distribution.
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