Spinal cord - ventral horn (10x objective lens)

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This image shows part of the ventral horn and the surrounding white matter. White matter, in the upper and right portions of the image, has a higher density of darkly staining nuclei, which belong to glia cells, making it appear darker at low magnification. The gray matter, in the center and lower left of the image, has a lower density of cell nuclei. The perikarya of large neurons can be also seen in the gray matter. These are motor neurons, whose axons leave the spinal cord via the ventral root nerve, the beginning of which can be seen at the upper right edge of the image. The yellow stained structure at the right of the image (ventral surface of the spinal cord) is the pia mater, the connective tissue covering of the cord.

 

Stain = H&E

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