THE ACTION OF QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS ON MICROBES

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• Publication Date: February 9, 1951
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rodeos wore di~fiault to diecQrn a~t this
two minutoo~ ThQ details o~ the P
wa also used r~nnaentrationQ Af 1~~O~OQA,...1s100,000~ and
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� the rooeoo oaourred more slowly ~d we worn able to follow
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Tho firot thing whioh was notio�d
atop by step tho basin aellulcr ohangee~
soA o was the sudden intsnoifioation of vaouoli~ation
with an ordinaryr micro p
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influence Af oetyl-aoph~rol~ The protoplasm became
Af thQ Doll under the
hat it seamed to haYO frothed the wall of the
full of large alvoolos so t
ed and began to rQfract light more stron~ly~ I
noted elatini~ ~ 1
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{ a e of contraction of th� protoplast a~~d plasma sc that the
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ear The contraction of the protoplast `
latter is ~illad with small avcol
tit deemed that the droplets of lipoids and nuclear �tr~~ctures
increased so the
cad small grains The contraction of t~~e proto-
disappeared and were reply by
at se stated from the cellular membranes giving a
pleat was so great th p i
@ver this is
(Fi~?~re 1 b } ~ dew
.1 picture Bugg�sting acute plasmolysia~
Bible state Staining of the living cell w~ h Janus Qreen
already an irrever
ar�r~t further details of the cellular changes
pad makes app
and 1'ieutral
riosome structure ie affected 1n the early stages of the
First the chond
r~sis d@velop in the
r reaction vacuoles and lipoida (fat phan� }
cellula
hen these organaids expand, assume bulb or spher~.cal shapes
chondriosomes ~ ~
ter art of them loses tl~e ability t� be stained by Janus Qreen
and the grey p
ed which are then retained only by the peripheral structures
ar~d Net~aral R ~
u disNerse in small granules, and dissolve
Later the chondriosomes break p,
er bQ ins to increase its adsorption of the dye
in the protoplasm The latt g
colored in blue by the Janus Green and in+ red by the
and bQCOmea diffusely
bat the rotoplasm and its organoids were under-
. Neutral Red ~ At the time t p
es the contents of the vacuolar structure for
x: going such considerable Chang ~ ,
The volutin which Forme a coacervate with ,
a long time remained unchanged.
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under blue rove ~ ~'or this study the cello w+~ehod from th� auopeneior~ medium
were trastad while living with fluoroooent eubatanoeo: aoridine orange, ~ ~ ,I~ ~;x,
a nd Dori hoe hine+ We observed briefly the results obtained
~ barbarine sulf ate, a P p
with eaoh of thooe aubatanoea~
s utiona 1x100 000--1s200,000~
The acridina orangQ in very weak el ( ,
ee - re�n fluorescence off' the proto-
created in the ~ndor~ycee Magnueii a d p ~ _
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d a li ht- teen fluoresoenae of the nucleus ~ The vacuole� which
gleam an g g
cumulated a .rest deal of the dye were colored a fiery red. The early
ao g
hen �e not observed under the micr~ecope in white light, were �xpr�eeed
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her 1 increae�d brightness of the cytoplasm and nucleue~ The prato-
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plasm began to fluoresce a bright green and the r~ucl�us a yellow graan~
used b an increased adsorptive power of the protoplast~ The
This is ca y
accumulation of Acridine orange in thQ coil in time increased and the fluor-
Decants of the protoplasm acquired a stronger yellow color, became orange
and f~:na~:ly red. The orange �nd red f~.unreacence of the protoplasm coinoidee
with its irrevDrsible damage to it through gDlatir~i~~ation aid c~?agulation~
~ These changes in tt~e color of the fluorescenc� which are connected with
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maturation of the proteins of th� cell were first observed in plant, cells
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by Strt~ge (7 ~
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death was accom~e.nied by t~~e change of tEye fluoreec�nt green color of ~ .
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red. zn checking these observations ourselves, we
adsorbed acr~.dine ~to ,
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his than a of the fluor�scent color occurs only for a specific
found that t g
t e of degeneration of the protaplaet and does net invariably accompany

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