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soma

Intoxicating drink made from the fermented sap of the Asclepias acida plant, used in Indian religious ritual as a sacrifice to the gods. Its consumption also constituted the central rite in Zoroastrian ritual, where it was known as haoma. Some have argued that the plant was in fact a hallucogenic mushroom.
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Sensing/quiescent ("resting") microglia were classified as having small compact somata bearing long thin ramified processes.
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Several of the antibodies reacted with antigenic sites that appeared to be localized in the extracellular spaces, yielding reactions that produced a strong "cell-negative" stain in which the neuronal somata were clear against a background of dense stain.
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