[Experimental modeling and the discussion on the syncytial connections in the nervous system].

To solve the problem of the possibility of syncytial connection in the nervous system, this paper for the first time presents the evidence of experimental syncytial fusion of neurons. Neurons, isolated from the ganglia of the mollusc Lymnaea stagnalis and freed from the surrounding glia by pronase treatment, were drawn together by centrifugation and were kept in the culture medium for two days in the aggregated state. The neurons preserved the ability to generate normal processes.