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Three types of Golgi-stained neurons were discovered in brain stem reticular nuclei of 30-day-old kittens: sparsely branching reticular neurons, those with densely branching dendritic trees, and giant multipolar neurons (Leontovich's classification). Adopting computerized morphometric techniques enabled 23 different parameters to be measured in cells of these types. The measurements taken from the neuronal groups investigated revealed statistically significant differences between them for most parameters. It was concluded from this that each of the neuronal types distinguished has its own morphological identity (or stability). Characteristics of structural differences and properties of differing cell types in reticular nuclei are discussed in relation to their functional properties.
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Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 399–409, July–August, 1991.
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Gladkovich, N.G., Vorob'eva, A.D., Lushchekin, V.S. et al. Morphometric parameters of neurons in reticular nuclei of the brain stem in kittens. Neurophysiology 23, 289–296 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01052559
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