Boundary glial membrane in the brain of a newborn rat. Immunostaining for SOD enzyme and glial marker GFAP . Fragment of illustration from Peluffo et al., 2005. [1]
The boundary glial membrane (glia limitans) is the uppermost layer of the nervous tissue of the brain, which lies directly beneath the pia mater .
The boundary glial membrane consists of interlacing processes of astrocytes covered with a basal lamina in direct contact with the pial cells. Some processes of astrocytes, “legs” (endfeet), are firmly attached to the basal plate by special protein complexes resembling hemidesmosomes .
Notes
- ↑ Peluffo, H., Acarin, L., Faiz, M., Castellano, B., Gonzalez, B. Cu / Zn superoxide dismutase : journal. - 2005. - June ( vol. 2 , no. 1 ). - P. 12 . - DOI : 10.1186 / 1742-2094-2-12 . - PMID 15929797 .