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Purkinje Neurons

Dmitry Sarkisov GS
Department of Physics Princeton University

This is a composite image of five Purkinje neurons from the rat cerebellum, in the back of the brain. Each has been filled with fluorescent dye through a glass pipette, shown touching the cells. Images were taken on a two-photon microscope. Each Purkinje cell receives hundreds of thousands of inputs through its dendrite, the elaborate tree-like structure seen emerging from the cell body.

Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cell
Daniel O'Shea '09 (undergraduate)
Department of Electrical Engineering

This is a GFP-tagged mouse retinal ganglion cell (in green), overlaid on a layer of cells with DAPI-stained nuclei (in blue) and ChAT-stained starburst amacrine cells (in red), taken with a tri-channel confocal fluorescence microscope.