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The Comparative Ultrastructure Of The Choroid Plexus In Certain Animal Species, Norman M. Case
The Comparative Ultrastructure Of The Choroid Plexus In Certain Animal Species, Norman M. Case
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Employing the electron microscope, the writer studied the ultra-structure of the choroid plexus of the lateral and the 4th ventricles of the brain in seven species of animals comparatively. No such extensive comparative investigation has been made before with this instrument. The animals represent, in the main, species which have served previously, both in physiological and light microscopical studies on this organ, and consist of several specimens each of the frog, the opossum, the hamster, the guinea pig, the rat, the rabbit and the dog.
Materials and methods. A technique of sacrificing the animal under deep anesthesia by decapitation …