SOME FEATURES OF THE SUBMICROSCOPIC MORPHOLOGY OF SYNAPSES IN FROG AND EARTHWORM

Electron micrographs are presented of synaptic regions encountered in sections of frog sympathetic ganglia and earthworm nerve cord neuropile. Pre- and postsynaptic neuronal elements each appear to have a membrane 70 to 100 A thick, separated from each other over the synaptic area by an intermembra...

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Main Authors: De Robertis, Eduardo D. P., Bennett, H. Stanley
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 1955
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2223594/