Atlas of Ultrastructural Neurocytology
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1.5. Axon

Fig. 1.5.5. An axonal growth cone (asterisk) in the hippocampus. The left image shows the growth cone partially reconstructed from serial sections. The right image is one section, showing the dense matrix of the growth cone cytoplasm. Scale = 1 µm. (15 day-old rat, hippocampus area CA1.)

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