THE periodic acid Schiff technique has been used histochemically primarily as a means of localizing the 1,2 glycol linkage in tissue sections 1. It is known, however, that periodic acid is also ...
BARRY 1 discovered that when a polysaccharide has been oxidized with periodic acid, the oxidation product on warming with phenylhydrazine yields glyoxalosazone. Thus, oxidized starch and cellulose are ...