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Synaptogenesis in presumptive anterior horn cells of the spinal cord (C4-T3) was studied by electron microscopy in early human prenatal development. The morphological stages of synaptogenesis were traced and the minimum structural organization of the synapse corresponding to the onset of its functional activity was identified. The possible mechanisms of synaptogenesis are postulated.
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Milokhin, A.A., Reshetnikov, S.S. & Chernova, I.V. Development of interneuronal synapses between anterior horn neuroblasts of the human spinal cord in early prenatal development (seventh to ninth weeks of gestation). Bull Exp Biol Med 83, 257–260 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00799440
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00799440