BIO304H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Joseph Von Gerlach, Camillo Golgi, Golgi'S Method
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Neuron doctrine nervous system made up of nerves. Nervous system is made up of a single contiguous network. Not separate cells i: made up of tubes and connected together. Were strong proponents of the reticular theory ii. Randomly labels a subset of neurons permitting single cell tracing. We didn"t always know that neurons are cells. Made possible by technological advances in microscopy. 1665 looked at a leaf understand microscope i. Based on combined observations by numerous scientists. The cell is the basic unit of structure and organization in organisms. Could be nucleus as it holds the blueprint of the cell iii. Histologist who studied a broad range of nervous system tissues. One of the first to see the great potential of the golgi stain. Did the seminal work that disproved the reticular theory in favour of the neuron theory i. Broad synthesis of principles about nervous system by heinrich waldeyer.
