Around that time, perhaps influenced by the predominant metaphor, German anatomist Joseph von Gerlach looked at nervous tissue through his microscope and saw the tangle of fibers—a reticulum.

No definitive electron microscopic localization of catecholamines has been achieved due ... J. Electron Microscopic Localization of Amines in Central Nervous Tissue. Nature 209, 1131–1133 ...

The invention of the microscope and chemical staining developed by Golgi gave rise to modern neuroscience. Many anatomists believed in the reticular theory, seeing the nervous system as a single ...

For the microscope to work, the tissue has to be made transparent, ... High-resolution ultramicroscopy of the developing and adult nervous system in optically cleared Drosophila melanogaster.

Neuroscientists have developed a way to turn an entire mouse, including its muscles and internal organs, transparent while illuminating the nerve paths that run throughout its body. The process ...

Behold the entire nervous system of a mouse, revealed in unprecedented detail by turning the animal’s body completely transparent. This technique could help us better understand the workings of ...