Observations on Nerve Cells and Fibres by Polarization Microscope

To reveal the relationship between the morphologic structure and the functioning of cells it is of great importance to know the molecular arrangement in cytoplasm. For this purpose the observation by polarization microscope is one of the most exellent methods. There are several excellent works on nerve fibre done using polarized lightl,2,3,4 but there is no report concerning the nerve cell itself. It is the purpose of this paper to show our data obtained on ganglion cells and nerve fibres with the deduced speculation on the structural arrangement of lipoprotein in the protoplasm of nerve cells and fibres.