Nerve Tissue page 19

Yves Clermont, Michael Lalli, Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai
LIGHT-MICROSCOPIC HISTOLOGY ATLAS

4. Nerve Tissue

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4.19 Nerve

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Longitudinal section of a sciatic nerve.

Separated by the connective tissue (Co) of the endoneurium, the nerve fibres show their characteristic acidophilic networks of myelin (My).

The myelin sheath of one fibre is interrupted by a node of Ranvier (NR) traversed by an axon (Ax).

Other axons, partly masked by myelin networks are seen in adjacent fibres.

Stain: H–E
Magnification: ×1200

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