[A cytophotometric study of granules forming in frog erythrocytes during incubation in solutions of neutral red and novocaine].

Granules arising in the cytoplasm of Rana temporaria erythrocytes incubated in solutions containing either a stain (neutral red) or an alcaloid (novocaini) were studied cytophotometrically. The stuff concentrations in the granules were estimated under various conditions of incubations. The stuff concentrations in the granules appeared to be dozens- or hundreds--fold higher than in the incubation solutions. The average concentration in the granules did not depend either on the initial concentration of the stuff solution, or on the incubation time or on the volume of the incubation solution. The stuff concentration in the granule decreases with the increase in the granule size.