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Translated from Arkhiv Anatomii, Gistologii i Émbriologii, Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 36–42, March, 1982.
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Mashanskii, V.F., Bazanova, I.S., Kazanskii, V.V. et al. Functional rearrangements of the ultrastructure of the giant (Retzius') neuron of the medicinal leech and possible role of Ca++ ions in these processes. Neurosci Behav Physiol 15, 337–342 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01185297
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