The human astrocyte

Voir Est Savoir 2020 - Vote 15 - Julie Meystre

Maximum intensity projection (MIP) of Lucifer Yellow-filled (8%) astrocyte in the human temporal cortex of an 8 year old patient. Dye-filling revealed a bushy cell morphology with many fine processes. Scale bar 20 µm

Details: Confocal Zeiss-LSM700, 63x PlanApo oil objective; cell volume: x:128.55 µm, y:128.71 µm, z:31.00 µm; pixel size: 0.066 µm; z-step: 0.5 µm. Image processing: MIP; Grays-Inverted LUT; scale 1.8x; RGB; image pad with a background colour


Julie Meystre is a lab technician working in the Markram lab of Neural Microcircuitry. She's very curious by nature and keeps being astonished by the beauty and the diversity of brain cells morphologies.