FUCK YEAH NERVOUS SYSTEM

25 Jun 2011
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gleeforglia:

Rat cortical neurons in tissue culture stained with NF-H antibody (red) and GFAP antibody (green). (Via EnCor Biotechnology 2011)

Rat cortical neurons in tissue culture stained with NF-H antibody (red) and GFAP antibody (green). (Via EnCor Biotechnology 2011)

17 Jun 2011
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Rat glial cells in mixed cerebral cortex cultures stained with chicken antibody to Vimentin(green) and counterstained with rabbit antibody to GFAP (red). Hoechst dye reveals nuclear DNA in blue.

16 Jun 2011
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Neurons trigger the retrograde transport of a myelin protein (green) from late endosomes/lysosomes (red) to the surface of oligodendrocytes.

9 Jun 2011
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scipsy:

Activated microglia, astrocyte, and pyramidal neuron in rat hippocampal slice culture. (via Michael Dailey Image Gallery)

26 Apr 2011
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scipsy:

Protoplasmic astrocytes (via Cell Centered Database)

1 Apr 2011
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Rat retina astrocytes and blood vessels [source]

1 Feb 2011
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120mm:

Color scanning electron micrograph of brain cells. The large cells with long, thin branches are neurons. The others are glial cells, specialized structures that support and protect neurons.

(Source: veir)

14 Jan 2011
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Confocal Image of rat cerebral cortex labeled to highlight blood vessels (red), astrocytes (yellow), and cell nuclei (cyan).

[source]

29 Dec 2010
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Sagittal section of rat brain immunofluorescently labeled for phosphorylated neurofilaments (expressed in neurons).

In addition, glial fibrillary acidic protein (expressed in various astroglia and neural stem cells) was targeted. Cell nuclei were labeled with nuclear counterstain.

[source]

21 Oct 2010
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2-Photon fluorescence image of glial cells in the cerebellum (400X)

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Nerve cells and glial cells, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). The nerve cells have small cell bodies (yellow) and fine extensions called axons and dendrites (pale green). The glial cells have large cell bodies (darker green) with thicker extensions (pale green). [source]

25 Aug 2010
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Astrocytes (red) and oligodendrocytes (green) dervied from mouse neural stem cells in culture. Both these cells are types of neuroglia and are important for correct brain function. [source]

30 Jul 2010
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neurolove:

This is a cultured motor neuron (red) with a bunch of astrocytes (green) that appeared on the cover of PNAS in 2007. Astrocytes are star-shaped (as you may have guessed from the name) glial cells. Glial cells are the support cells of the brain, and their function isn’t completely understood yet- they may be even more important than the support cell idea gives them credit for. Glial cells maintain homeostasis, form myelin (this is not astrocytes that make up myelin- different glial cells do that), and may even have a critical role in major depression. This role is still under investigation (I’ll talk about what scientists think they might do in a later post because it’s very interesting), but it leads to the critical investigation of what exactly do these glial cells do and how we can understand them better.

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