DE-cadherinlarvalbrain.mov (3.14 MB)
Developing neurons (frozen in time) in the larval brain of the fruit fly
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posted on 2013-05-12, 17:06 authored by Jo YoungJo YoungThis movie was created from a stack of confocal microscope images of a 3rd instar larval brain from the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
The brain tissue was stained with anti-DE-cadherin. The axon tracts developing in the centre are secondary axon tracts.
Two spherical brain hemispheres can be seen on either side of the upper part of the ventral nerve cord.