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The neuron is a specialized cell, which has one or more long processes. One of these, the axon, may assume an impressive length (up to 1 m) relative to the perikaryon ( ~ 100 μm). The perikaryon is the metabolic center of the cell, where macromolecules and organelles are manufactured, products that are exported into the axon, to undergo axonal transport towards the nerve ending. Retrograde axonal transport also occurs, and this bidirectional phenomenon, intra-axonal transport, is of vital importance for the function of the neuron (cf. Grafstein and Forman 1980, Dahlström 1983). It has therefore been the subject of a number of investigations that have dealt with e.g. the influence of various experimental procedures on amount of transported material or rate of transport.
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Dahlström, A., Larsson, PA. (1985). Cytofluorimetric Scanning: A Quantitative Method to Study Axonal Transport. In: Agnati, L.F., Fuxe, K. (eds) Quantitative Neuroanatomy in Transmitter Research. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08171-4_21
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