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)
Rat cortical neurons in tissue culture stained with NF-H antibody (red) and GFAP antibody (green). (Via EnCor Biotechnology 2011)
Brain - Horizontal microsection
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.
Neurons trigger the retrograde transport of a myelin protein (green) from late endosomes/lysosomes (red) to the surface of oligodendrocytes.
Section of primate retina stained with antibodies against parvalbumin to identify horizontal cells (green) and calbindin (blue) to immunostain cones, cone bipolars and some types of amacrine and ganglion cells.
Activated microglia, astrocyte, and pyramidal neuron in rat hippocampal slice culture. (via Michael Dailey Image Gallery)
Layers of retina
Sensory nerves of a hair follicle.
Neuronal Growth in the Mouse Embryo
Erin Kaltenbrun, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and MBL Embryology CourseE10.5 mouse embryo antibody stained for neuronal cells and nuclei. Whole mount antibody staining using antibodies for neuronal cells (TuJi) and nuclei (DAPI), imaged through the dorsal posterior neural tube.
Brain - Coronal section
Confocal light micrograph of a nerve cell (neuron, yellow) from the retina of the eye.
Hippocampus - Distribution of interneurons expressing EGFP from the 5HT3 receptor promoter in the dorsal hippocampus
