Connecting Synapses with Neuronal Development

Connecting Synapses with Neuronal Development

Submitted by Robert Luck in the Tye Lab at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT

Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

"These are neuronal cells that I isolated from the hippocampus (a brain region) of mice. I stained actin (red), which is a component of the cytoskeleton to see the shape of the cell as well as synapsin (green dots). Synapsin is a protein occurring in synapses. I tried to establish this staining as well as a way to quantify the amount of synapses per neuron to later study the effect of two signaling-molecules on the formation of synapses in vitro."

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