Gas-liquid chromatography of lipoidal matter of the seeds of C. sinaica indicated that the seeds consist mainly of a mixture of a series of n-alkanes (75.75%).

They have features common to neoplastic cells of epithelial origins such as numerous microvilli, junctional complexes, abnormal nuclei and nucleoli, abnormal mitochondria, annulate lamellae, and lipoidal bodies.

Indeed, on the numerous occasions when secretion was taken up into micropipettes, the fluid was always noted to consist of a clear outer phase, and an equally clear, coarsely dispersed (and presumably lipoidal) inner phase.

All nontreponemal tests measure immunoglobulins G (IgG) and M (IgM) anti-lipid antibodies formed by the host in response both to lipoidal material released from damaged host cells early in infection and to lipid from the cell surfaces of the treponeme itself.