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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2016 Feb 2;55:60–69. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.01.006

Figure 2. Age-associated Morphologic Changes in Primate Astrocytes.

Figure 2

A general increase in total process length of gray matter astrocytes was observed, with significant increase between juveniles and adults (A). There was no significant increase in white matter process length as macaques matured (B). The apparent complexity of the astrocytes was significantly increased in both gray (C) and white matter (D) astrocytes as macaques became adults, which was then decreased in geriatrics. These changes were not associated with either atrophy or hypertrophy in either gray (E) or white matter (F) cell bodies.