Cerebrum - pyramidal cell and oligodendrocyte (100x objective lens)

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This high magnification image from the mouse brain shows the perikaryon of a pyramidal cell and an adjacent nucleus that probably belongs to an oligodendrocyte, a type of glia cell that covers neuronal perikarya and forms myelin around nerve fibers in the central nervous system. The numerous fine, darkly stained lines are dendrites and axons.

 

Stain = silver

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