ARE RANVIER NODES OF THE CENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEM ALSO ARTIFACTS BY PREPARATION

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1992

Authors

monteiro, raf (Author) Other; rocha, e (Author) ICBAS

Journal

Title: Acta Anatomica

Vol. 145

Pages: 179-180

ISSN: 0001-5180

Publisher: S. Karger AG

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FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Basic medicine

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Authenticus ID: P-001-P3E

Abstract (EN): Recent research on peripheral nerves of six species of vertebrates concluded that Ranvier's nodes may be artifacts by preparation. As a consequence, the question as to whether or not Ranvier's nodes of the central nervous system may also be artifacts was logically raised. The ultrastructural data concerning our field of research (the cerebellar cortex) support the notion that Ranvier's nodes are real features in the central nervous system; otherwise. the occurrence of vesicular outpockets establishing. along myelinated axons, well conspicuous en passant nodal synapses cannot be explained.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 2