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RECENT examination by phase-contrast microscopy of teased, fresh or macerated radial nerve, or of frozen sections in Diadema antillarum, has shown the presence of reddish cells that are neither amoebocytes nor chromatophores, but which resemble neurones in their general form (Figs. 1 and 2).
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MILLOTT, N., OKUMURA, H. Pigmentation in the Radial Nerve of Diadema antillarum. Nature 217, 92–93 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217092b0
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