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Atlas of Ultrastructural Neurocytology
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1.4.1. Dendritic Spines

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Fig. 1.4.1.4. Mushroom-shaped dendritic spine (S) with axo-spinous synapse. D - dendritic stem, arrow - spine apparatus in the spine neck. The appearance of the spine neck containing the spine apparatus as it looks cut transversally is shown in the inset. Scale = 300 nm. (Rat, hippocampus; inset: mouse, neocortex.)

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