Atlas of Ultrastructural Neurocytology
	About | Contents | Index	Previous | Next

2.1. Astrocytes

Fig. 2.1.9. Multilaminar periglomerular sheath formed by thinned astrocyte cup-shaped processes (arrow), which are widened at their rims. The sheath is surrounding the giant axon terminal making multiple synapses with dendritic spines (S). Scale = 200 nm. (Rat, thalamic ventrobasal nucleus.)

3/2/00 © J Spacek