This is our program mascot...Neuron Man.  He's on the Neuroscience Program's homepage.  He's also appeared on many t-shirts and buttons we used to sell at the Society for Neuroscience Meetings.  This is Golgi (I love Golgi) stained material from the medullary reticular formation of the rat.

 

This is the same general part of the rat brain - also Golgi.

  

This is the same general area of the brain, thinly sliced.

Golgi stained tissue again - here you can see Granule Cells "holding hands."  These cells live in your cerebellum and they are the most numerous neuron in the brain.

 

Fluorogold labeling of raphe cells in the medulla.  Fluorogold was placed on the surface of the lumbar spinal cord and transported to these cells.  Fluorgold is visualized using fluorescence (and thus the name fluorogold) microscopy.