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Washington University Experience | BASIC PROCESSES | Neuroaxonal dystrophy | 18A4 Aged Rat NAD, gracile (122-B2 age, 14 months Plastic 100X 2A
One micron thick plastic section of the gracile nucleus of a 14 month old rat demonstrates numerous dystrophic elements which have a complex substructure. None of the large blue swellings represent neuronal cell bodies, only individual swollen synapses/preterminal axons (toluidine blue stained one micron plastic section)