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Plant and Animal Cells
Alexandrium
Astrocytes
Canola pods, MRI imaging
Chloroplast
Nerve
Neurosphere
Onion cells
Pine leaf
Plant Cell
Plant cells, wounded
Plant stamen
Pollen grain
Pumpkin stem
Tomato plant cells
Thalecress, genetically modified flowers
Trichrome cells
Wheat cells
Bacteria
Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
Campylobacter
Francisella tularensis
Helicobacter pylori
Legionella pneumophila
Listeria monocytogenes
Methanobacterium
Methanospirillum hungatei
Proteus mirabilis
Salmonella typhimurium
Virus
Plant and Animal Cells
Astrocytes - Non-Neuronal Brain Cells
What causes brain cells to die as a result of injury or disease? NRC researchers are using specialized imaging techniques to study the biological processes involved in brain cell death. Here, astrocytes – non-neuronal brain cells and the most abundant brain cell type – have been treated in-vitro with a chemical that mimics the in-vivo effect of a stroke. After six days the impact on the astrocytes was assessed using a technique called fluorescence immuno-reactivity. This microscope image clearly shows that the astrocytes are producing damage-related proteins, the green and red areas.
