Atlas of Ultrastructural Neurocytology
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2.3. Oligodendroglia

Fig. 2.3.11. Three-dimensional reconstruction illustrating the invagination (arrow) into the myelinated axon (M). The inner oligodendroglial tongue of the myelin sheath fills this labyrinth to play a scavanger phagocytosing role in the axoplasm. (Rat, thalamic ventrobasal nucleus.)

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