This week’s post is from Michael Granatosky, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago in the department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy (Figure 1). If you would like to write for Anatomy to You, get in touch via Facebook or Twitter. Figure 1. Michael Granatosky (left) collecting data in Brazil on the comparative energetic…
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Section through lower spinal cord, labelled with fluorescent markers
Lumbar (lower) spinal cord, sectioned and labelled using fluorescent markers. The markers attach to antibodies which are introduced by the researcher and designed to bind to specific proteins. This technique is called immunofluorescence. Here, green indicates markers for sensory neurons, red shows motor neurons and blue highlights rough endoplasmic reticulum – where most protein synthesis takes…
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