Snapshots in Neuroscience

By SfN Staff
December 5, 2024

Cocultured human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived astrocytes and neurons.

By SfN Staff
November 7, 2024

These partial 3D reconstructions of synapses from wild-type and synapsin knock-out mice show the presynaptic membrane, the postsynaptic membrane, and synaptic vesicles.

By SfN Staff
October 3, 2024

Shown are olfactory sensory neurons, sustentacular cells, and scattered sustentacular cells and macrophages infected with SARS-CoV-2.

By SfN Staff
September 5, 2024

Visible in this sagittal section of a mouse cerebellum are granule cells and Purkinje cells.

By SfN Staff
August 15, 2024

Magenta GFAP staining shows that mouse hippocampal astrocytes have a typical swept-spider morphology, while radial glial cells extend radially through the granule cell layer.

By SfN Staff
July 18, 2024

Shown are regenerating dendrites and uninjured dendrites of PVD neurons in C. elegans.

By SfN Staff
June 20, 2024

To assess neural activity during mouse tasting behavior, a calcium indicator (green) and a red fluorescent protein (magenta) were expressed in the locus coeruleus.

By SfN Staff
May 30, 2024

Pictured are proprioceptive sensory afferents and Atoh1-lineage neurons in the lower thoracic mouse spinal cord.

By SfN Staff
May 9, 2024

Reconstructed 3-dimensional whole brain distribution of orexin receptor expression visualized using the branched hybridization chain reaction method.

By SfN Staff
April 25, 2024

Two images of tree shrew retina captured with in vivo optical coherence tomography and ex vivo confocal imaging reveal densely packed, vertically elongated, and stratified axon bundles that are more like axon bundles in humans than in mice.