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[exsequar]

So I thought I'd show you guys a bit of what I'm doing at my internship every day. I work with a video microscope so I'm able to capture images of the blood vessels I work with.

So this is a vein that I worked on this morning. It's taken from the intestine of a rat, and this image was taken after it was all cleaned of the fat and everything (that was the skill that I took longest to get a hang of, but I'm a total pro now! \o/)



Then I treated it with increasing doses of the hormone endothelin, which causes it to contract, and it ended up like this:


If anyone's curious about the details, feel free to ask me questions! :)

Comments

[novafairy.livejournal.com]

Wow. :)

Thanks for showing this.

(and sorry for this super dumb comment. *hugs*)

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

No problem! And it wasn't a dumb comment, silly thing *smooshes you* I always love comments from you :)