Schmidt-Lanterman incisure

id: GO:0043220
name: Schmidt-Lanterman incisure
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Regions within compact myelin in which the cytoplasmic faces of the enveloping myelin sheath are not tightly juxtaposed, and include cytoplasm from the cell responsible for making the myelin. Schmidt-Lanterman incisures occur in the compact myelin internode, while lateral loops are analogous structures found in the paranodal region adjacent to the nodes of Ranvier.

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