Brain - histology slide

This photomicrograph at high magnification shows a typical pyramidal neuron of cortical layer V (blue, diamond). There is a protoplasmic astrocyte, (brown, asterisk) in layer IV close to the dendrite of the pyramidal neuron.

Histology slide courtesy of Laughton et al. BMC Neuroscience 2007 8:35 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-8-35.

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