schmidtlanterman

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Light micrograph of myelinated nerve fibres that have been longitudinally sectioned and fixed with osmium tetroxide. In each fibre the myelin sheath appears as two black parallel lines. In the centre of the image, a nerve fibre shows oblique interruptions of myelin called Schmidt-Lanterman clefts, which can be seen at higher magnification in the lower left box