[Changes in the structural heterogeneity of surviving nerve cells]

Heterogeneity in distribution of the dry substance mass (protein) in normal and reactively altered isolated neurons has been studied in vital investigations by means of interference microscopy and microspectrophotometry. It has been demonstrated that at a reactive reconstruction neuroplasmic substances undergo rearrangement, resulting in increased heterogeneity. In peripheral juxtamembranous parts neuroplasmic colloids are divided separating the hydrated zone with a low content of protein and forming made that an increasing adhesion of the juxtamembranous proteins could result in their aggregation with protein complexes of the transmembranous ionic canals, that affects the specific electrogencic function of the neuron.