Monaka (Japanese 最中) is a Japanese snack food made of azuki bean filling sandwiched between two thin crisp wafers made from sticky rice. The wafers are shaped like cherry blossoms, chrysanthemums and so on. Modern monaka can also be eaten filled with ice cream. A snack food is seen in Western culture as a type of food that is not meant to be eaten as part of one of the main meals of the day (breakfast, lunch, supper). ... Binomial name Vigna angularis (Willd. ... Sticky rice or glutinous rice is the main type of rice grown and consumed by the Lao of Laos and Northeast Thailand, areas which are considered to be the primary center of origin and domestication of Asian rice (). It has been cultivated in this area for 4,000 years. ... Washington, D.C. Tidal Basin showing cherry trees in flower Cherry tree blossoms A cherry (originally cherise reinterpreted as a plural, from the Old Norman French word, in turn from Latin cerasum) is both a tree and its fleshy fruit, a type known as a drupe with a single hard... Species - tricolor daisy - pyrethrum - pyrethum daisy - crown daisy - marguerite - daisy - florists chrysanthemum C. segetum - corndaisy Ref: ITIS 35791 See also Daisy (disambiguation) The chrysanthemum, also known as the mum, is a flowering perennial plant of the genus Chrysanthemum in the daisy family (Asteraceae). ...
MONaKA is found throughout the central nervous system in both neurons and glia, as well as outside the nervous system in organs such as the heart, lung, kidney and liver.
MONaKA staining in the mouse hippocampus (A), cerebellar Purkinje cells (B) and dorsal root ganglion neurons (C).
MONaKA is found in the cytoplasm of the cell, as well as along the dendrites.