the part of a nerve cell in which the nucleus is located
Examples of 'perikaryon' in a sentence
perikaryon
The clinically affected animal had histological lesions of vacuolation in the neuronal perikaryon and neuropil, typical of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
Mark P Dagleish, Stuart Martin, Philip Steele, Jeanie Finlayson, Samantha L Eaton,Sílvia Sisó, Paula Stewart, Natalia Fernández-Borges, Scott Hamilton, Yvonne Pang,Francesca Chianini, Hugh W Reid, Wilfred Goldmann, Lorenzo González, Joaquín Castilla,Martin Jeffrey 2015, 'Susceptibility of European red deer (Cervus elaphus elaphus) to alimentary challengewith bovine spongiform encephalopathy.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4304823?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)