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Textbooks and common reference books of physiology and neurobiology often start with the description of the basic morphological features of nerve fibers in their corresponding chapter. For example, in the beginning of the second chapter of the classic monograph The Conduction of the Nervous Impulse by Hodgkin (1964, p. 20), the classification of nerve fibers was briefly outlined with a diagram as follows: “On the basis of their appearance under the microscope nerve fibres may be divided into two classes. In the myelinated nerve fibres which, in vertebrates, include all except the smallest axons, the axoplasmic core of the fibres is surrounded by a sheath of fatty material known as myelin.” and “In unmyelinated fibres there is no fatty sheath….”
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Xu, K., Terakawa, S. (2013). Introduction. In: Myelinated Fibers and Saltatory Conduction in the Shrimp. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53924-7_1
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