Nerve Tissue page 24

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

4. Nerve Tissue

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4.24 Spinal cord

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Transverse section of the central canal of the spinal cord.

The central canal is lined with a simple columnar epithelium (E) composed of neuroglial cells. These epithelial cells have a long cytoplasmic process at their base which penetrates the underlying grey matter. Such processes are not visible on this section.

The lumen of the central canal contains cerebrospinal fluid. In the surrounding nervous tissue the grey matter (GM) and the white matter (WM) can be differentiated and their borderline is indicated by arrows.

Stain: H–E
Magnification: ×800

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