Studying neural organization in Aplysia with the scanning electron microscope.
Preliminary attempts have been made to employ the scanning electron microscope in the mapping of a simple nervous system, the abdominal ganglion of Aplysia californica. Early results are encouraging: neuronal fibers have been identified and traced over relatively long distances from their cell bodies to structures tentatively identified as synapses and to structures tentatively identified as electrotonic connections.
D000005:Abdomen / Q000294:innervation; D000818:Animals; D005724:Ganglia / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008974:Mollusca; D009454:Neurofibrils / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D013569:Synapses / Q000033:anatomy & histology