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Neuroanatomists work mainly by dissecting, " imaging" (such as MRI, CT and PET), performing in vivo staining and histology.

1 Cellular neuroanatomy

Cellular neuroanatomy is the anatomy of neurons and glia, including the branching of dendriteIn biology, a dendrite is a slender, typically branched projection of a nerve cell, or " neuron," which conducts the electrical stimulation received from other cells to the body or soma of the cell from which it projects. This stimulation arrives throughs and the detailed structure of synapsenerve cells to communicate with one another through axons and dendrites, converting electrical signals into chemical ones. For the technology festival, see Synapse Festival. Synapses are specialized junctions through which cells of the nervous system signs. It is studied with the techniques of histology and microscopyMicroscopy is any technique for producing visible images of structures or details too small to otherwise be seen by the human eye. With the exception of techniques such as force microscopy and electron tunnel microscopy, microscopy usually involves the di, often in concert with genetic engineeringGenetic engineering genetic modification GM , and gene splicing (once in widespread use but now deprecated) are terms for the process of manipulating genes in an organism, usually outside of the organism's normal reproductive process. It often involves th, which may be used to "tag" specific proteinmyoglobin, showing coloured alpha helices. This protein was the first to have its structure solved by X-ray crystallography by Max Perutz and Sir John Cowdery Kendrew in 1958, which led to them receiving a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A protein is a complex,s.

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