The synaptic cleft, meaning the distance between two nerve cells or between a nerve cell and a muscle cell, is just 10 to 50 nanometers—too small for conventional microscopes.

The synaptic cleft, meaning the distance between two nerve cells or between a nerve cell and a muscle cell, is just 10 to 50 nanometers – too small for conventional microscopes.

However, when Erbacher looked at skin tissue under the microscope, he noticed that nerve fibers did not just grow around skin cells but, to the whole team’s surprise, tunneled straight through them.

or nerve fibers: neurons (stained green) grown from human skin cells, and Schwann cells (stained red) grown from a rodent. The cell bodies are stained blue. "I am fascinated by how the microscope ...

The scientists needed a microscope that was high-speed ... imaged fatty sheaths that insulate mouse nerve cells, highlighted all of the dopaminergic neurons, and counted all the synapses across the ...

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"This is possibly a new form of communication between nerve cells in the brain," says chemist ... you can't simply see it under a microscope," Van der Stelt says. Standard measurement methods ...

The tail enables the sperm to swim. The nerve cell is extended, so that nerves can run to and from different parts of the body to the central nervous system. The cell has extensions and branches ...

The new Olympus LV200 microscope has changed ... to the rest of the brain and body via nerve pathways and secretion of particular chemicals. Some SCN cells contain the necessary molecular ...