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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.

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• July 01, 2011, 10:00am

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    For those of you who don’t believe there is beauty in science. This is a dissociated hippocampal neuron with an antibody...

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    i loved doing antibody stains against MAP2…dendritic and axonal markers on the regular

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