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Nerve cell conductors
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axons
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Nestled in a nutlike shell no larger than a human fist, the organ was a tangle of axons and dendrons webbing together a gelatinous muddle of neuron clusters.
He then selected a particular class of neurons, recognizable by their long axons, measured the length of each dendritic branch and counted the spines on each, which he then calculated as number of spines per um - that is, millionth of a metre - of dendrite.
Neurons are concentrated in clusters with short interconnecting axons and dendrites between the cells of the group and defined nerve tracts leading in and out.
In the 1930s and 1940s research on one large mollusc, the squid, revealed that it had truly giant nerve axons, which could be dissected out individually and were big enough to insert electrodes into.
Nonetheless the eye of art and experience can interpret the electron micrographic chaos to pick out individual synapses, cell bodies, axons and dendrites and measure them.