Cell-cell fusion in the nervous system: Alternative mechanisms of development, injury, and repair

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Over a century ago, the seminal work of Ramón y Cajal revealed that the nervous system is made of individual units, the neurons, which are related to each other by contiguity rather than continuity. This view overturned the idea that the nervous system was a reticulum of fibers, a rete diffusa nervosa, as proposed and defined by Camillo Golgi. Although the neuron theory has been widely confirmed in every model...

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