General stuff

I have decided to switch to the beta version cos I like how the archiving shows up as individual posts...should anyone (snort) decide they want to read over back entries, its a bit easier now!

In other news, it was an unfulfilling week in research. I did a lot of lab work that was ok (connexin stainings), inconclusive (blood vessel vs pericyte staining), or downright didn't work (calcium loading). So here are some photos.

Ok, the arrows in this pic is pointing to labelling of cx43 - a molecule that occurs at the junctions of particular cells. We are of the belief that these junctional molecules disappear in the disease. The bad thing about this photo is that i really had to jack up the background colour so that we could see the location of the dots in relation to everything else. Next time, I'm gonna use a counter-stain.

This one labels for cx26 - similar to cx43 but not dotty. We wanted dots.

This is a whole mounted retina labelled for NG2, and shows blood vessels. The lumpy things sticking out of the vessels are cell bodies. Huzzah for geeks!