| Abstract: | By the method of quantitative cytophotometry, the content of ribonucleic acid in neurons and mantle gliocytes of the cat vagus caudal node has been studied after a single maximal overloading of 10 units. It has been stated that a decreased RNA content in the mantle gliocytes is less pronounced; that could be explained by their different nutritional conditions (owing to their various position towards the microvessels of the node), on the one hand, and by different functional loading experienced by the two types of cells under the effect of the extreme factor studied, on the other hand. RNA content in gliocytes is restored more quickly owing to its less decrease, and also owing to a more favourable protein synthesis in glycocytes--"for itself". |
