Ultrastructural study of the brain of a typhloplanid flatworm

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 243-249

  Bedini, Celina ^a   Lanfranchi, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; GLIA CELL; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

PLATYHELMINTHES; STRONGYLOSTOMA; TYPHLOPLANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031815883     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.1998.tb01162.x     Document Type: Article

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