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SUBMITTER: Merchan-Perez A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4014183 | biostudies-other | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20130130 6
In the cerebral cortex, most synapses are found in the neuropil, but relatively little is known about their 3-dimensional organization. Using an automated dual-beam electron microscope that combines focused ion beam milling and scanning electron microscopy, we have been able to obtain 10 three-dimensional samples with an average volume of 180 µm(3) from the neuropil of layer III of the young rat somatosensory cortex (hindlimb representation). We have used specific software tools to fully reconst ...[more]