title: Alcoholic hyalin-like bodies found in the pancreatic acinar cells and nerve cells of the brain.
abstract: The presence of hyalinoid body as an eosinophilic, dendriform to irregularly shaped mass was noted in the cytoplasm of pancreatic acinar cells of 13 among a series of approximately 150 autopsy cases of alcoholism examined.  Similar subcellular structures were also demonstrable in nerve cells of the brain in 2 of these cases.  The hyalinoid body stained scarlet in phloxine methylene blue preparations and orange-brown in preparations with the Masson staining method (modified procedure of Gomori), and was revealed to be a fibrillar filamentous mass by electron microscopy.  These characteristics suggest its marked resemblance to alcoholic hyalin in liver cells.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D001344:Autopsy; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D006818:Hyalin / Q000032:analysis*; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008875:Middle Aged; D010179:Pancreas / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013997:Time Factors