Nerve Cell (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Nerve Cell

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This STED image of a nerve cell in the upper brain layer of a living mouse shows in previously impossible detail the very fine dendritic protrusions of a nerve cell, the so-called spines, at which the synapses are located. The inset shows the mushroom-shaped head of such a dendritic spine at which the nerve cells receive information from their peers.

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MPI for Biophysical Chemistry

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