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Structures containing acetylcholinesterase were found in the motor nuclei of the cervical enlargement of the cat spinal cord by light and electron microscopy in material stained by the Karnovsky-Roots method. The specific response was observed not only in neurons of the motor nuclei, but also in some satellite cells, astrocytic glial cells, and Schwann cells. A positive reaction for acetylcholinesterase was found in some of the satellite cells located close to both cholinergic and noncholinergic neurons. As a result of electron microscopy, an electron-dense deposit of copper ferrocyanide was found on the structures of the nucleolus, on the surface of the inner and outer layers of the nuclear membrane, in the pores of the nuclear membrane, in the perinuclear space, and in the endoplasmic reticulum of the perikaryon of some satellite cells, as well as on the outer and inner surfaces of the cytoplasmic membrane of the Schwann cells.
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A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev, Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 48–51, January–February, 1977.
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Torskaya, I.V., Goloborod'ko, V.N. Acetylcholine estimate in glial cells of the cat spinal cord. Neurophysiology 9, 35–38 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063542
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