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Synapse Figure 2: Organization of the autonomic nervous system.
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Also Known As neuronal junction • synaptic junction

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Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Eric Kandel
Austrian-American neurobiologist