Methods library · Cells and imaging
Electron microscopy
Also called TEM, SEM, immunogold, freeze-fracture
Imaging cell ultrastructure at nanometre scale with electrons, from thin sections to freeze-fracture and immunogold.
The film for this method is in production. Until then, the lessons below explain it where they use it.
Where it is taught
33 lessons use this method.
Cell Biology
- A Measured Eukaryotic Cell
- Microscopy and Quantitative Images
- The Nuclear Envelope and Nuclear Transport
- Protein Quality Control and Organelle Turnover
- Vesicle Budding, Targeting and Fusion
- Endocytosis, Recycling and Degradation
- Cell Shape, Migration and Cilia
- Mitosis and Chromosome Segregation
- Cytokinesis and Organelle Inheritance
- Epithelia and Tissue Organization
Developmental Neuroscience
- The Wiring Problem: How a Brain Gets Built
- Seeing Neurons: Golgi, Cajal and the Neuron Doctrine
- The Ventricular Zone: Radial Glia as Stem Cells
- Radial Migration: Climbing the Glial Ladder
- One Axon, Many Dendrites: Neuronal Polarity
- Pioneers, Guideposts and the Logic of Guidance Cues
- The Death Machinery in Neurons
- Building the Neuromuscular Junction: Agrin, Lrp4 and MuSK
- Synapses in the Brain: Adhesion, Scaffolds and Astrocytes
- Microglia and Complement Prune Synapses
- Myelination: Wrapping the Axon
- Feeding the Axon: Glia as Metabolic Partners
- Injury and Regeneration: Why the Brain Does Not Regrow
- New Neurons in the Adult Brain
- What Makes the Human Brain Big