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Electron Density Model for Nerve Myelin

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THE swelling of freshly dissected frog sciatic nerve myelin in sucrose solutions has been studied by low-angle X-ray diffraction. Our analysis of the X-ray data leads to a choice between two possible triple layered membrane units and also allows us to assign an absolute electron density scale to the favoured model.

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WORTHINGTON, C., BLAUROCK, A. Electron Density Model for Nerve Myelin. Nature 218, 87–88 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218087a0

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