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5. The Peripheral Nerves and Ganglia

Fig. 5.15.  Upper figure: Light microscopy of the funnel-shaped Schmidt-Lanterman incisures as they appear in Luxol Fast Blue-stained longitudinal paraffin section of peripheral nerve. (Human, peripheral nerve.)

Lower figure: Longitudinally cut myelinated axons with Schmidt-Lanterman incisures (arrows). Scale = 1 µm. (Human, sural nerve.)

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