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a smile to say thanks to michael. this photomicrograph was taken on a zeiss axioplan microscope at 100X total magnification (10X objective, 10x eyepieces) using a zeiss cooled CCD camera and captured with zeiss axiovision 4.1 software. the red is a stain for axons, in this case axons in the corpus callosum, the 'bridge' which joins the two hemispheres of the brain together and allows them to share information. the green is a stain for glia (the 'supporting' cells for the neurons). the hollow slits at each side are the lateral ventricles - hollow spaces in your brain which contain the cerebrospinal fluid (what the docs sample when you have a 'spinal tap').
this particular brain is from a late embryonic mouse, fixed and sectioned in the coronal (face on) plane. colours were enhanced in photoshop and the picture cropped to make it pretty. if you read this far, congrats! if the above is gobbledegook, just think of this as an extreme macro shot.
flickrsmile
a smile to say thanks to michael. this photomicrograph was taken on a zeiss axioplan microscope at 100X total magnification (10X objective, 10x eyepieces) using a zeiss cooled CCD camera and captured with zeiss axiovision 4.1 software. the red is a stain for axons, in this case axons in the corpus callosum, the 'bridge' which joins the two hemispheres of the brain together and allows them to share information. the green is a stain for glia (the 'supporting' cells for the neurons). the hollow slits at each side are the lateral ventricles - hollow spaces in your brain which contain the cerebrospinal fluid (what the docs sample when you have a 'spinal tap').
this particular brain is from a late embryonic mouse, fixed and sectioned in the coronal (face on) plane. colours were enhanced in photoshop and the picture cropped to make it pretty. if you read this far, congrats! if the above is gobbledegook, just think of this as an extreme macro shot.