adult inner optic chiasma giant glial cell [FBbt_00100527]

adult inner optic chiasma giant glial cell

ID: FBbt_00100527

Large glial cell of the inner optic chiasm of the adult optic lobe, between the proximal medulla and lobula complex. It extends many cytoplasmic processes that enwrap fiber bundles at and near the sites of axonal intersection (Tix et al., 1997. These cells have an elongated sheet-like morphology and they send long projections into the three neighboring neuropil regions (Kremer et al., 2017. There are around 40 inner optic chiasma glial cells per optic lobe (Kremer et al., 2017. (Tix et al., 1997, Kremer et al., 2017)

Kremer et al., 2017 expression and morphological analysis suggests that these are synaptic neuropil ensheathing glia - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1373-1705.