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The authors are grateful to Candidate of Biological Sciences E. V. Ozirskaya for useful technical hints, and to Professor A. L. Polenov for allowing the electron microscope in his laboratory to be used for the work.
Translated from Arkhiv Anatomii, Gistologii i Émbriologii, Vol. 75, No. 7, pp. 27–34, July, 1978.
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Motorina, M.V. Ultrastructural features of synapses of gap junction type in frog spinal motor nuclei. Neurosci Behav Physiol 10, 295–301 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01184039
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