Atlas of Ultrastructural Neurocytology
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2.3.1. Central Myelin

Fig. 2.3.1.6. The myelin sheath terminates by widened rims of myelin loops and the ensheathed axon (A) becames naked in the region of the node of Ranvier (R). Note intercellular septate-like dark strips between oligodendroglial and axonal plasma membranes in the inset. Scale = 500 nm. (Rat, thalamic ventrobasal nucleus.)

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