Jordan Lloyd
Department of Physiology
“Oxygen carrying donuts in the midbrain”
A small blood vessel filled with red blood cells running through part of a rat brain slice (midbrain). On either side of the blood vessel small neurons (~10um diameter) that can be identified by their smooth and oval/eye shaped membranes appearing amongst the rough grey extracellular tissue.
Image captured under a 40x water immersion objective using light microscopy with infrared differential interference contrast (IR-DIC) illumination.