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gitter cells

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gitter cells
microglial phagocytic cells of the central nervous system which are laden with degenerating myelin. The cells are spherical with a bubbly margin and with a reduced nucleus. Called also compound granular corpuscles, scavenger cells, Hortega cells, fat-granule cell.


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Viral antigen was most frequently found in cardiac myocytes, parasympathetic ganglia in the submucosal and muscular plexus of the small intestines, and numerous cell types in the brain, including glial cells, ependymal cells, endothelial cells, neurons, and gitter cells.
 
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