Glial Responses to Degenerating Cerebellar Cortico-nuclear Pathways in the Cat
Robert P. Eager 1 and
Patricia R. Eager 1
1 Department of Anatomy, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Astrocytic changes in regions of long-term, cerebellar corticonuclear degeneration are characterized by large increases in cytoplasmic volume, as well as by formation of vacuoles and fibrils. Lipids are demonstrable in the vacuoles with oil red-O staining.