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B. RENSHAW1 has shown that part of impulses from the motoneurones is not directed to the muscles; it spreads by way of a branch of the motoneurone axon through an inhibitory interneurone and then returns to inhibitory synapses covering the same motoneurone which originally evoked the impulse. Now it is known that nearly all neurones at all levels of the central nervous system possess a self-inhibitory mechanism of that kind.
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FRANKSTEIN, S., BIJASHEVA, Z. & SMOLIN, L. Inhibitory Synapses and Inflammation. Nature 205, 294–295 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205294a0
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