[Rod-shaped inclusions in the heart and brain in the experimental alcoholization of rats]

Experiments were made on rat alcoholized by inhalation. Electron microscopy of the myocardium and brain cortex showed the dystrophically altered cells of these organs to contain unusual rod-shaped and sagittal cytoplasmic inclusions unrelated to organelles and having a certain structural similarity to alcoholic hyaline detected in men. The necessity of further studies to identify the inclusions in question is discussed.