GO:0043005
OBSOLETE. Any of the discrete particles (nerve-ending particles) formed from the clublike presynaptic nerve endings that resist disruption and are snapped or torn off their attachments when brain tissue is homogenized in media isosmotic to plasma. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0198506732 ]
Synonyms: synaptosome
Term information
This term was made obsolete because it refers to a result of cell homogenization and not a bona fide cellular component.