Has anyone seen this perivascular black stuff in rat brains?

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Enrique Soto

Dear Emmett,

They seem to be melanocytes, which you would not see in albino rats such as Wistar or Sprauge-Dawley.

Regards,

Enrique

Andras Czurko

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