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Dedicated to Professor Alexander von Muralt on the occassion of his 80th birthday.
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Stämpfli, R. Introduction. The Ranvier node, past and future. A personal outlook after forty years of research. Experientia 39, 931–935 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01989756
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