Nissl may refer to:
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Nissl body
Nissl bodies (also called Nissl granules, Nissl substance or tigroid substance) are discrete granular structures in neurons that consist of rough endoplasmic reticulum, a collection of parallel, membrane-bound cisternae studded with ribosomes on ...
, also known as ''Nissl substance'' or ''Nissl material'', a component of neurons
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Franz Nissl
Franz Alexander Nissl (9 September 1860, in Frankenthal – 11 August 1919, in Munich) was a German psychiatrist and medical researcher. He was a noted neuropathologist.
Early life
Nissl was born in Frankenthal to Theodor Nissl and Maria Haas ...
, the German medical researcher who discovered them
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