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cell body

Known as: Body, Cell, Cell soma, Bodies, Cell 
The portion of a cell bearing surface projections such as axons, dendrites, cilia, or flagella that includes the nucleus, but excludes all cell… 
National Institutes of Health

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Cell body of neuroncell body membranelateral shield
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Melanopsin-Containing Retinal Ganglion Cells: Architecture, Projections, and Intrinsic Photosensitivity
The primary circadian pacemaker, in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the mammalian brain, is photoentrained by light signals… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Mice Lacking α-Synuclein Display Functional Deficits in the Nigrostriatal Dopamine System
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The hypocretins: hypothalamus-specific peptides with neuroexcitatory activity.
We describe a hypothalamus-specific mRNA that encodes preprohypocretin, the putative precursor of a pair of peptides that share… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Neurons Containing Hypocretin (Orexin) Project to Multiple Neuronal Systems
The novel neuropeptides called hypocretins (orexins) have recently been identified as being localized exclusively in cell bodies… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Distribution of serotonin-immunoreactivity in the central nervous system of the rat—Cell bodies and terminals
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Topographic atlas of catecholamine and acetylcholinesterase‐containing neurons in the rat brain. I. Forebrain (telencephalon, diencephalon)
Transverse sections of the rat forebrain have been studied by the histofluorescence and acetylcholinesterase histochemical… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Mode of cell migration to the superficial layers of fetal monkey neocortex
  • P. Rakić
  • The Journal of comparative neurology
  • 1972
  • Corpus ID: 41001390
Golgi and electronmicroscopic methods were used to define the shapes and intercellular relationships of cells migrating from… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Receptive fields and functional architecture of monkey striate cortex
1. The striate cortex was studied in lightly anaesthetized macaque and spider monkeys by recording extracellularly from single… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CELL SIZE IN SPINAL MOTONEURONS.
SINCE THE BEGINNINGS OF NEUROHISTOLOGY it has been recognized that neurons within the central nervous system vary widely in size… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
The Central Nervous System
Evolution of Nervous Control from Primitive Organisms to ManA Symposium organized by the Section on Medical Sciences of the… 
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