Neurons, Freeze!
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 9 Story 1 - 13/4/2010

A shock-frozen synapse

This image shows a synapse that passed though the vitrification process and was obtained by electron microscopy. It is one of the images used for the 3D reconstruction. In the red circle is a synapse, on the top is the presynaptic neuron with its neurotransmitter vesicles and on the bottom is the postsynaptic neuron.
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A shock-frozen synapse. This image shows a synapse that passed though the vitrification process and was obtained by electron microscopy. It is one of the images used for the 3D reconstruction. In the red circle is a synapse, on the top is the presynaptic neuron with its neurotransmitter vesicles and on the bottom is the postsynaptic neuron.