title: Scanning transmission and conventional electron microscopic observation of previously identified protoplasmic astrocytes. A preliminary study.
abstract: Two different types of protoplasmic astrocytes were studied by scanning transmission and conventional electron microscopy in order to determine the exact nature of the aspect described by Chan Palay and Palay as velate astrocyte. This study provides new data about the usefulness of S.T.E.M and brings into question the results of the Palays.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001253:Astrocytes / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D002415:Cats; D007245:Inferior Colliculi / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D009457:Neuroglia / Q000648:ultrastructure*