[Histologic picture of elastic and collagen fibers and acid mucopolysaccharides following experimental cryosurgical interventions of the mucous membrane of the rabbit tongue].

The behaviour of elastic and collagenic fibres and sour mucopolysaccharides treated with low temperatures was observed while examining the rabbit tongue mucosa and analysing histological preparations. Changeable was the time of freezing the mucosa and the time between applying cryoapplication and taking the tissue. The lack of elastic fibres continuity in the tissue preparations was observed in the cryodestructed places and at the same time, a chain of collagenic fibres underwent segmentation. This destruction of elastic and collagenic fibres was very closely connected with the process of the weakening reaction to sour mucopolysaccharides.