This reasoning was not seriously challenged until the 1980s, when investigators reported observing protein synthesis in dendrites whose connection to their cell body had been severed.
这种判断直到20世纪80年代都没有受到严重挑战，据那时的研究者报道，观察到了树突中的蛋白质合成，而它们与细胞体的联系已被切断。