A) The electron microscope picture of sagittally cut sections from unlabeled control corpus callosum show variability in axon diameters and myelin thickness. B) DAB-Ni labeled (electron-dense) myelinated (arrows) and nonmyelinated (arrowheads) excitatory axons have different axon diameter and myelin thickness. C) High-magnification DAB-Ni labeled myelinated excitatory axon. D) DAB-Ni labeled inhibitory axons (arrows) are more scarce and almost always myelinated. E) High-magnification micrograph of myelinated inhibitory axons. F) High-magnification electron microscopy images show the fine structure of myelin sheets of excitatory F) and inhibitory G) projection axons. The number of laminae is more numerous around inhibitory (12 in this example) than excitatory axons (6 in this example). Scale: A, B, D: 500 nm; C: 100 nm; E: 250 nm; F: 40 nm; and G: 80 nm.
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