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Nerve tissue is one of the one of the four basic tissue types. It consists of nerve cells and glial cells. The glial cells differ between the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. This chapter describes the structure and function of nerve cells and their associated glial cells.
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Rehfeld, A., Nylander, M., Karnov, K. (2017). Nerve Tissue. In: Compendium of Histology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41873-5_14
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