Nerve Tissue page 25

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

4. Nerve Tissue

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4.25 Spinal cord

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Section of a spinal cord. In this preparation the myelin of the nerve fibres was extracted by the histological procedure creating numerous artefactual spaces.

Nevertheless, the grey matter (GM) on the left and the white matter (WM) on the right can be distinguished and their approximate boundary is indicated by a broken white line. The white matter is characterized by cross sections of myelinated nerve fibres with visible axons (black arrows). The grey matter shows numerous intertwined neuronal and neuroglial processes that compose the neuropil.

The large cytoplasmic body seen at the border of the grey and white matters belongs to a large neurone (N).

Stain: H–E
Magnification: ×750

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