Spinal cord - dorsal root nerve (100x objective lens)
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In this section of the dorsal root nerve, the nerve
fibers appear as blue lines bounded by a clear space, many of which
contain short blue-red lines extending from the nerve fiber to the edge of
the myelin sheath. These lines are remnants of Schwann cell cytoplasm that
were not extracted during preparation. The red-stained oval nuclei
belong to Schwann cells. A prominent node
of Ranvier can be seen in the upper right corner of the image.
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- Stain = AZAN.
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Paul B. Bell, Jr. & Barbara Safiejko-Mroczka
The
University of Oklahoma
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