Nerves as Never before (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Nerves as Never before (2 of 3)

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"This is my favorite image -- we'd never seen anything like this until we used this technique," says Heppenstall. "It shows that free nerve endings [red] in the skin split into an incredible number of branches." Labelled in blue are the nuclei of the skin's cells.

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Credit: EMBL/S. Morley

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