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What are Nissel granules? Where do you find them?

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Nissl's granules are the small bodies made up of clusters of ribosomes, acids and lipids. They are present in the cell body of the neuron. These granules are the part that associated with the endoplasmic reticulum and are involved in protein synthesis.

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