Nissl bodies are responsible for the gray color of the gray matter, regions in the CNS that are highly enriched in cell bodies. Can you hypothesize why Nissl bodies exist in neurons and not in other cells?
The CNS has arranged called gray matter and white matter. Gray matter contains the cell bodies of nervous and supporting cells as well as unmyelinated dendrites. Nissl bodies exist in neuron and not in others cell because nissl bodies are found only soma and dendrites of a neuron and do not appear in the axon the protein they create the bodies is made up of Rna, protein, lipids and acid polysaccharides. It also essential to the well being of a neuron a decrease in the number of nissl bodies in the neuron indicates neural degeneration.
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