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THE histological changes that follow section of a peripheral nerve have been described in great detail1–5. Hitherto, most of what we know concerning the nature of nerve lipids during degeneration has come from the use of histochemical, rather than chemical, methods.
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JOHNSON, A., MCNABB, A. & ROSSITER, R. Lipids of Peripheral Nerve During Wallerian Degeneration. Nature 164, 108 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164108a0
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