Ginger Withers (Whitman College), Dieter Brandner (Whitman College) (2011) CIL:6219, Rattus, multipolar neuron. CIL. Dataset

Synapse formation in cultured hippocampal neurons after 7 days in vitro. Cells were immunostained for MAP2, a microtubule associated protein localized to dendrites but not axons (green), and synapsin I, a presynaptic vesicle protein (red)to reveal the development of presynaptic contacts along the dendritic arbor.

在体外培养的海马神经元中，经过7天的培养后，发生了突触的形成。细胞通过免疫染色标记了微管相关蛋白MAP2（绿色），该蛋白定位于树突而不在轴突，以及突触囊泡蛋白synapsin I（红色），以揭示树突树突沿上突触接触的发展过程。