FUCK YEAH NERVOUS SYSTEM

2 Jul 2011
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asinglescientist:

For those of you who don’t believe there is beauty in science. This is a dissociated hippocampal neuron with an antibody stain against MAP2, a common cell body and dendritic marker. Billions of these guys make up the human brain through trillions of synaptic connections. Neurons really are beautiful.
Image taken from our own lab.

For those of you who don’t believe there is beauty in science. This is a dissociated hippocampal neuron with an antibody stain against MAP2, a common cell body and dendritic marker. Billions of these guys make up the human brain through trillions of synaptic connections. Neurons really are beautiful.

Image taken from our own lab.

An image of a nerve impulse moving (conduction) along an axon. The membrane potential is the result of the distribution of ions across the cell membrane and the permeability of the membrane to these ions.

29 Apr 2011
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Surface reconstruction of a Golgi-stained pyramidal cell

25 Mar 2011
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psydoctor8:

New office art.

22 Mar 2011
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biocanvas:

Motor neuron axons traveling in parallel to muscle cells. These motor neurons are responsible for coordinating muscle contraction.

Image by Jean Livet. Captured by Dr. Jeff Lichtman, Harvard.

12 Mar 2011
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3 Mar 2011
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Rat cerebellum [source]

13 Feb 2011
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Cerebellum

In this micrograph, individual colors are bestowed to adjacent cells. Here we see the endings of axons in the cerebellum, called rosettes because of their flowerlike appearance.

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9 Feb 2011
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Midsaggital section of rat cerebellum

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2 Feb 2011
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Purkinje nerve cell. Computer-enhanced confocal light micrograph of a section through a Purkinje nerve cell.

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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)

9 Jan 2011
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scipsy:

Photo by Heiti Paves.

Embryonic sensory neurons growing in cell culture, a fluorescence microphotograph. Neurofilaments are stained with red fluorescent dye, and microfilaments are stained blue.