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Science 19 July 1963:
Vol. 141. no. 3577, pp. 262 - 264
DOI: 10.1126/science.141.3577.262
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Electrotonic Junctions between Teleost Spinal Neurons: Electrophysiology and Ultrastructure

M. V. L. Bennett 1, E. Aljure 1, Y. Nakajima 1, and G. D. Pappas 1

1 Departments of Neurology and Anatomy, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York

Electrotonic transmission between spinal neurons is correlated with distinctive apposition of cell processes involving membrane fusion. In the same neurons, postsynaptic potentials appear to arise at typical synaptic knobs where there is an intercellular space.


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