Instant Notes in Neuroscience (Instant Notes)
Publisher: BIOS Scientific Publ
Published: July 19, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780415351881
First sentence: The cell body (soma and perikaryon are synonyms) of a neuron (see Fig. 1) contains the nucleus, Golgi apparatus, ribosomes and other subcellular organelles, and is responsible for most of its routine metabolic 'housekeeping' functions.