Atlas of Ultrastructural Neurocytology
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2.1. Astrocytes

Fig. 2.1.25. Three-dimensional reconstruction of flat, stacked, cup-shaped and lamelliform astrocyte processes forming a glial capsule ensheathing the synaptic glomerule in thalamus. D - dendritic trunk, s - spine, T - axon terminal, asterisks - glial sheath. Note tubules of smooth endoplasmic reticulum in widened rims of glial lamellae. (Rat, thalamic ventrobasal nucleus.)

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