The role of the cytoskeleton in cell body enlargement, increased nuclear eccentricity and chromatolysis in axotomized spinal motor neurons

Table 1 The cytoskeleton maintains most of cell body, nuclear and nucleolar volume in normal motor neurons.

Mean volume ± S.D from 6 experiments; approximately 50 lumbar cell bodies from 3 frogs were analyzed in each experiment. Isolated cell bodies were extracted by the method of He et al. [12] to obtain cytoskeletons.
^a E/U = extracted/unextracted
**p < 0.01, Student's paired t-test, extracted vs. unextracted counterpart

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