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The recent electronmicroscopical progress on the finer structure of nerve cells and synapses has been reviewed. To illustrate this progress the Purkinje-cells of the cerebellum and the motoneurone of the spinal cord have been selected.
The structure of Nissl-bodies and other organelles of the nerve cell such as a Golgi-complex, mitochondria, lysosomes and ribosomes, has been discussed.
Special emphasis has been paid to synaptic structures in order to relate observations made in light microscopy to electronmicroscopy. For this reason the development of synapses based on studies has been described and the significance of their degenerative alterations in experimental material discussed.
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Glees, P., Meller, K. The finer structure of synapses and neurones. Spinal Cord 2, 77–95 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1964.17
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