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Washington University Experience | BASIC PROCESSES | Senile Plaques | 2 Senile plaque, neuritic, Bielschowsky silver stain
The constituents of this neuritic senile plaque include Bielschowsky argyrophillic reactive swellings, involving axons and dendrites (i.e., "neurites"). One swollen neurite in this image arises from a process of more normal dimensions (arrow), likely an axon (Bielschowsky silver stain)