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Cytological features of the giant neurons controlling electric discharge in the ray, Torpedo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

B. L. Roberts  and
K. P. Ryan
B. L. Roberts
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
K. P. Ryan
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
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‘Giant’ nerve cells have always attracted considerable interest because of the technical possibilities they offer to experimental biologists, for as well as being easy to impale with microelectrodes they can be dissected away from non-nervous tissues and used for bio-chemical analyses.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , March 1975 , pp. 123 - 131
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1975

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