The Experimental Studies on the So-called Kupffer's Stellate Cell: Part I. The Influence of the Indian Ink-injection upon the Stellate Cell and its Relation with the Liver-glycogen

In 1876, the so-called stellate cell (stern zell), star-or pyramidal shaped, was first described by v. Kupffer.1 By an application of Gold Chloride to the liver tissue he2 observed that the stellate cell is an endotheliocyte lying along the blood-capillary of the liver lobule and pocesses a phagocytic power on the disintegrated erythrocytes or various foreign-bodies in the blood circulation. Browicz,3 Schilling,4 Schumkowa-Trubina5 etc. also agreed