Atlas of Ultrastructural Neurocytology
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1.4.1. Dendritic Spines

Fig. 1.4.1.28. Three consecutive serial sections through a giant axon terminal synapsing with a complex dendritic spine (asterisk). Massive accumulation of polyribosomes is present in the spine (arrow). D - dendritic stem. Three-dimensional reconstruction of this dendritic spine is shown in Figure 1.4.1.29. Scale = 500 nm. (Rat, ventrobasal thalamic nucleus.)

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