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The biochemistry of the spinal cord (SC) has generally received less attention than that of other areas of the CNS, perhaps because of the relative inaccessibility of this tissue or because it is considered a less important region of the CNS. No recent review on the biochemistry of SC has appeared, to the knowledge of the author. This chapter summarizes the available data on the structural biochemistry of this organ. Only the data referring to normal tissue are considered; some data relative to the biochemical development of the SC also are included. Results obtained with histochemical techniques are mentioned briefly, only to give some insight, when possible, on the cellular localization and distribution of compounds that are generally measured in large samples of tissue. Restriction of space does not allow more than limited comparisons between the biochemical composition of SC and that of other regions of the CNS.
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