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Neuropil

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neuropil [′nu̇r·ō‚pil]
(neuroscience)
Nervous tissue consisting of a fibrous network of nonmyelinated nerve fibers; gray matter with few nerve cell bodies; usually a region of synapses between axons and dendrites.
Neuropil 

(1) An obsolete term designating a fibrous nerve tissue structure that is found predominantly in invertebrates. The supposedly interconnected nerve fibers form a continuous cytoplasmic network that resembles a syncytium. This use of the term “neuropil” does not accurately reflect the microstructure of the nervous system. (See.)

(2) The fibrous nerve tissue structure in which synaptic contacts between neuronal outgrowths are concentrated.
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1999) Nuclear and Neuropil Aggre gates in Huntington's Disease: Relationship to Neuropathology.
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PC] that possesses somewhat smaller variably stained neurons in a looser neuropil broken up by bundles of fibers (Dewulf, 1971; Hirai and Jones, 1989).
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The blood supply parameters of the nervous centers provided they are nominally considered as isomorphous structures having the similar conditions of local blood circulation, do not allow establishing particular changes in the furnishment of separate components and cannot take into account the relationship between the neuropil and the neuronal perikaryon.
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