ISSN:
1432-0878
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Medicine
Notes:
Summary Cultures of chick spinal cord have been grown upon a plastic substrate, using the Maximov flying coverslip technique. After fixation, drying and coating in vacuo with carbon and gold, they have been examined with a Cambridge Instrument Company “Stereoscan” scanning electron microscope. A number of cell types — fibroblasts, oligodendrocytes and astrocytes — have been identified in the outgrowth, and in a single case possibly a neuron. The appearance of these cells as seen with scanning electron microscopy is described. What appear under light microscopic examination to be single processes often possess a multicomponent structure, and are axon bundles rather than single axons. Both bundles and cells are attached to the substrate by discreet finger-like processes. Some relations of glial cells to axon bundles are shown, and appearances suggestive of early myelination are recorded.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00496698
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