Retinal Macroglial Responses in Health and Disease

Figure 1

Retinal astrocytes. Retinal whole-mount. Immunoperoxidase ((a) and (b)). Immunofluorescence (c). Astrocytes in the normal retina of a 58-year-old man. In the ganglion cell layer of the human retina, star-shaped astrocytes form a honeycomb plexus (a). In the rat (b) and mouse (c) retina star-shaped astrocytes form a plexus distributed throughout the retina. Such plexus is denser in the rat than in the mouse retina.

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