Abstract
Summary
Coincident with and shortly following paralysis by poliomyelitis virus with following morphologic changes occur in the motor and plates: 1, disappearance of many endplates resulting in denervation at the myoneural junction; 2, ephemeral appearance of masses of inclusion of bodies, some of which are cross striated, within and near the degenerating motor end plates; 3, differential rates of motor nerve degeneration; 4, degeneration beginning in the motor and plates and proceeding in a centripetal direction in the axis-cylinders of many motor nerves.
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