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Collections of granular endoplasmic reticulum and ribosomes in nerve cells, and which show strong staining in histological sections of nerve cells impregnated with basophilic dyes.
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(2009). Nissl Bodies. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_3983
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