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.
Forebrain, Rat (BC stain)
Confocal light micrograph of a nerve cell (neuron, yellow) from the retina of the eye.
Surface reconstruction of a Golgi-stained pyramidal cell
Mouse Purkinje cells (40x)
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![Rat cerebellum [source]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhhkwtQdWx1qa6reco1_1280.jpg)
Rat cerebellum [source]
![Midsaggital section of rat cerebellum
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Midsaggital section of rat cerebellum
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![Purkinje nerve cell. Computer-enhanced confocal light micrograph of a section through a Purkinje nerve cell.
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Purkinje nerve cell. Computer-enhanced confocal light micrograph of a section through a Purkinje nerve cell.
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Mus musculus brain: focus on hippocampus
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Hippocampal neuron stained for spectrin (red) and tubulin (green).
Camillo Golgi discovered a method of staining nervous tissue which would stain a limited number of cells at random, in their entirety. This enabled him to view the paths of nerve cells in the brain for the first time. He called his discovery the “black reaction” (in Italian, reazione nera), which later received his name: Golgi’s method or Golgi stain.
