[Chief factors in the polyploidization of cerebellar Purkinje cells during chicken embryogenesis. I. Characteristics of the morphologic differentiation and growth of Purkinje cells]

The Purkinje cells of the cerebellum of chick embryos differentiating from the neuroblasts of the ventricular epithelium by the 10th day of development continue the process of morpho-functional specialization, which is characterized by formation of tigroid and neurofibrilles, by intensive growth of cells, decrease of nuclear-plasmatic and increase of nucleolar-nuclear relations. At the period of hatching the specialization of the Purkinje cells comes to an end.

Animal model: feline GM1 gangliosidosis

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