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ALTHOUGH neurosecretory cells were shown to exist in the ventral ganglia of insects as early as 19401, students of neurosecretion in the group have concentrated on the brain and rather neglected the ventral nerve-cord. This neglect prompted me in 1959 to begin studying the ventral ganglia of Schistocerca gregaria (Orthoptera : Acrididae) in some detail, and though, since starting the work, three papers on the histology of the ventral ganglia of other insects have appeared2–4, a summary of the rather different conditions in Schistocerca seems desirable.
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DELPHIN, F. Histology and Possible Functions of Neurosecretory Cells in the Ventral Ganglia of Schistocerca gregaria Forsk.. Nature 200, 913–915 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200913b0
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