An ultrastructural study of the myelination of the trigeminal ganglion in human foetuses aged 10 to 23 weeks
Bruska, M.łg.
Folia Morphologica 62(3): 231-233
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0015-5659 PMID: 14507054 Document Number: 562413
An ultrastructural study was performed on trigeminal ganglia removed from foetuses aged 10 to 23 weeks. The first turns of lemmocyte processes around the axons were observed in the trigeminal ganglion in the 12th week of development. During the period between the 15th and the 18th weeks the myelin sheath increases in thickness and becomes a compact, laminated structure. In foetuses of 23 weeks the compact myelin sheath has up to 24 myelin lamellae.