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Washington University Experience | BASIC PROCESSES | Corpora Amylacea | 1 Astrocyte, corpora amylacea (Case 1)

Corpora amylacea are polymers of glucose (polyglucosans) which normally develop in the processes of astrocytes, increasing with age and often in a chronic response to tissue damage. They typically align adjacent to the pia in the glia limitans layer, as in the case shown, and have a blue-purple appearance with H&E stain (although they may be pale). (H&E)

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