Tissue clearing done by the team at the UIC/Structural Circuits Core. The dual color, volumetric images were taken by UIC staff on the RS-G4 ribbon scanning confocal microscope. Thanks to Dr. Sarah Greising for working with the UIC & allowing us to share these very special images from her project!
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An overhead view of a dissected rat muscle resting on grid paper.
The same view of the muscle as Image 1, but the muscle is translucent and grid lines are visible through it.
A fluorescence micrograph of the rat tibialis anterior muscle, stained to differentiate the long nerve fibers from the dot-like neuromuscular junctions.
A higher magnification of Image 3.
The innervation of the tibialis anterior muscle in a rat has never been so clear! Processed with SmartBatch+ by the UIC/Structural Circuits Core, for @greisinglab.bsky.social in the UMN School of Kinesiology. Red = nerves, yellow = neuromuscular junctions. #3DThursday @lifecanvastech.bsky.social
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