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Electron Density Profiles of Nerve Myelin

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THE structure of the nerve membranes within the myelin sheath of frog sciatic nerve has been studied by low-angle X-ray diffraction. Many additional orders of diffraction have been recorded from nerve, and, from a structure analysis of this new X-ray data, a twelve-parameter electron density model is proposed. Fourier series representations of the one-dimensional electron density of live nerve myelin at two different resolutions are also presented; these resolutions are 7 Å and 4.8 Å.

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    C. R. WORTHINGTON & G. I. KING

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WORTHINGTON, C., KING, G. Electron Density Profiles of Nerve Myelin. Nature 234, 143–145 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234143a0

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