Neurons after traumatic brain injury (IMAGE)
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Microscopy image showing sparsely labeled axons in a mouse optic nerve shortly after traumatic brain injury. Axons are the long projections of neurons that carry electrical signals between brain regions. Traumatic brain injury causes diffuse and often irreversible disconnection and degeneration of these fibers, disrupting communication within neural circuits—in this case, between the eye and visual centers of the brain.
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Athanasios Alexandris
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