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**Small round nuclei (lymphocyte-like nucleus) - '''key feature'''.
**Small round nuclei (lymphocyte-like nucleus) - '''key feature'''.
**May resemble a ''fried egg'' on H&E (clear cytoplasm, central nucleus).
**May resemble a ''fried egg'' on H&E (clear cytoplasm, central nucleus).
**Image: [http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/libraries/courses/neuroslides/lab1a/images/1-11.png oligodendrocyte urmc.rochester.edu]
*Astrocyte.
*Astrocyte.
**Irregular non-ovoid nucleus - '''key feature'''.
**Irregular non-ovoid nucleus - '''key feature'''.
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**Simple ciliated cuboidal epithelium.
**Simple ciliated cuboidal epithelium.
**Image: [http://www.stonybrookmedicalcenter.org/sbumcfiles/images/221-001.jpg Ependyma (stonybrookmedicalcenter.org)].
**Image: [http://www.stonybrookmedicalcenter.org/sbumcfiles/images/221-001.jpg Ependyma (stonybrookmedicalcenter.org)].
=====Images=====
<gallery>
Image:Oligodendrocyte_HE_stain_high_mag.jpg | Oligodendrocytes with fried-egg appearance. (WC/jensflorian)
Image:Ependyma.png|Ependymal cells. (WC/marvin101)
</gallery>


===Peripheral nervous system===
===Peripheral nervous system===
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*Large round nucleus with prominent nucleolus - '''key feature'''.
*Large round nucleus with prominent nucleolus - '''key feature'''.
*Abundant eosinophilic granular cytoplasm.
*Abundant eosinophilic granular cytoplasm.
 
====Schwann cell====
*Principal glia of the PNS.
*Myelinated or unmyelinated.
*Ovoid, wavy nuclei.
*Cells have a basal membrane.
*Found in peripheral nerves.
*Aka ''neurolemmocytes''.
=====Images=====
=====Images=====
<gallery>
<gallery>
Image:Ganglion_very_high_mag.jpg | Ganglion - very high mag. (WC/Nephron)
Image:Ganglion_very_high_mag.jpg | Ganglion - very high mag. (WC/Nephron)
Image:Peripheral nerve, cross section.jpg | Peripheral nerve - cross section. (WC/Reytan)
</gallery>
</gallery>


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