A toluidine blue-butanediol stain was used on various tissues of pheasants, chickens, turkeys, and Japanese quail to determine the distribution of tissue mast cells. The population of mast cells in ...

An initially homogeneous population of basophilic polymorphonuclear leukocytes was derived from human fetal liver cells grown in culture for 5--7 days. The cells were characterized as basophils by ...