Vesicles Have a Wide Pattern of Motions, but Not All of Them are Moving at Random (IMAGE)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

Vesicles Have a Wide Pattern of Motions, but Not All of Them are Moving at Random

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Upper left: This is live confocal imaging of synaptic vesicles labeled with quantum dots in the top region on pre-synaptic terminal expressing green fluorescence protein. Lower left: Synaptic vesicle tracking color-coded according to their trajectory length through the pre-synaptic terminal. Right : Distribution of synaptic vesicle trajectories according to vesicle speed and trajectory length (blue < 2 micrometers, green 2-4 micrometers, red > 4 micrometers).

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