Confocal microscopy

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Depth coded projection (colour) image of mouse hippocampus sections of thy1-GFP line. Stained with GFP and imaged with ZEISS ELYRA PS.1 with LSM 780 confocal option. Tiling & stitching with ZEN software generates hi-res confocal maps, make sure to download in full resolution and zoom in. Sample courtesy of Yi Zuo, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology (MCDB) Department, University of California Santa Cruz. www.zeiss.com/elyra

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Confocal microscopy of mouse brain, detail