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Peculiar inclusions occur within cisternae of the granular endoplasmic reticulum of some perikarya of the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus in cats. These inclusions appear as rods or bullet-shaped structures and their interiors are generally less dense. The inclusions may represent virus particles or proteinaceous products of the granular endoplasmic reticulum in which protein-synthetizing activities are probably increased to enormous extents.
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The author wishes to express his thanks to Prof. H. Nakao, Director of Department of Neuropsychiatry, and to Prof. T. Yamamoto, Director of 1st Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, for their kind guidance and careful review of the manuscript.
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Takeichi, M. Intracisternal inclusions in nerve cells of cat ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus. Cell Tissue Res. 149, 283–286 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00222280
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00222280