Complex Shape of Individual Oligodendrocytes (IMAGE)

University College London

Complex Shape of Individual Oligodendrocytes

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Image shows the complex shape of individual oligodendrocytes (OLs) and myelin in adult mice injected with tamoxifen. OLs formed before tamoxifen injection are red, newly-forming OLs have a yellow 'cell body' containing the nucleus surrounded by a green 'bundle of sticks' which are short stretches of myelin wrapped around thread-like axons. Axons are not visible but there are many of them running across the image right to left.

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Sarah Jolly, UCL

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