Friday, 13 October 2017

neuroscience - Are intracortical axon branches myelinated?


I found the following pictures of axon trees:


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source


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source (axons are red)


but didn't find a concise answer to the following question:



Is it possibly true that the intracortical axon branches (i.e. those that don't leave the gray matter) are not myelinated? (The first picture seems to indicate that they have at least a smaller diameter, making them slower?)





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