[A change in the dendrite apparatus of the central nervous system under the influence of several extreme factors].
Electron-microscopy studies of the lateral dendrite processes of the pyramidal cells of the cerebral cortex hemispheres in rabbits exposed to thermal effects, total irradiation, and to combination of these two factors, were carried out. Destructive changes in the lateral dendrite processes, consisting in their smoothing, translocation of the dendrite apparatus into the dendrite trunk, desorganization of the dendrite apparatus, were noted. The above mentioned changes in the dendrites were not accompanied by any marked impairment of the axodendrite synapses, which testified to a relative stability of the axodendrite synapses in the cerebral cortex hemispheres.