Sunday, 28 June 2009

Pictures of neurons

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/articles/cajal/index.html

Sliver-stained neurons (stained using the Golgi impregnation method), showing the elaborate architecture of the dendritic trees. The form and function of neurons are intimately connected.

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2007/11/somewhere-over-brainbow.html

Brainbow! The use of bright fluorescent colours in modern cell imaging techniques may influence the colour scheme of our end design.


http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/molneurobiol/salecker/optic/


An example of the three main colours used in fluorescent immunohistochemistry, a method by which protein expression in stem cells and neurons can be visualised.


http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Lifescience/GeneralBiology/Physiology/NervousSystem/Neuron/Neuron.htm


Pictures of neurons and their association with glial cells. Neuronal and glial cells can derive from the same multipotent stem cell progenitor population through the production of intermediate neural or glial specialised progenitor cells.

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