Conclusion
During specific detection of ChAT a precipitate which differs in amount and color is formed in the perikaryon of the neuron, whereas blood vessels and glial cells do not react with acetyl CoA. All motoneurons of the lumbar enlargement of the spinal cord contain different levels of activity of the enzyme. A positive reaction is found in the spinal ganglia in 58% of pseudounipolar cells, which are evidently true cholinergic neurons.
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Translated from Arkhiv Anatomii, Gistologii i Émbriologii, Vol. 75, No. 9, pp. 52–56, September, 1978.
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Motavkin, P.A., Okhotin, V.E. Histochemistry of choline acetyltransferase in the spinal cord and spinal ganglia of the cat. Neurosci Behav Physiol 10, 307–310 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01184041
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