Robert Livingston, 1978

File — Box: 3, Folder: 13

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Scope and Contents

Slides presenting research on quantitative neurology performed at the University of California. These are accompanied by correspondence and a description of the images.

P0452n03_013_001: Painting of synaptic junction by Frank Armitage. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_002: Painting by Frank Armitage for “Life” Magazine showing the cerebral hemispheres, visual system from retina to visual cortex in the posterior part of the hemispheres, the limbic system and part of the reticular activating system controlling arousal and sustained wakefulness, the cerebellum and brain stem. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_003: Painting by Frank Armitage of the Purkinje cell in the cerebellum. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_004: Painting by Frank Armitage of ascending dendritic processes of cortical pyramidal cells. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_005: Painting by Frank Armitage showing a cell body and extended process with a variety of inputs on the cell body and process coming from remote sources. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_006: This introduces a series of nine slides depicting synaptic transmission. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_007: Thin section electron micrographs illustrate typical anesthetized and unanesthetized synaptic junctions. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_008: A dual figure with thin section e.m. of an unanesthetized synaptic junction on the left and a freeze-etching e.m. on the right. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_009: Unanesthetized axonal presynaptic terminal, colored green for easy identification. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_010: This beautiful panorama shows a postsynaptic giant dendrite or cell body upon which two patches of presynaptic membrane have been left adherent. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_011: This is just a nice picture of axonal terminal with curved synaptic site, dimples indicating points of vesicle fusion with the presynaptic inner leaflet, and a fracture of the cytoplasm showing many synaptic vesicles. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_012: Another beautiful scene with a group of presynaptic terminals, some showing dimpled inner leaflets, curving and all, and others fractured across the cytoplasm. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_013: A pair of presynaptic terminals, one colored blue, the other left native, show obvious synaptic areas; but in this case the animal is anesthetized. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_014: This rather dark and wild scene is as considerably lower magnification to permit viewing a larger area It shows presynaptic membranes seen through fractured postsynaptic membrane. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_015: The objective of this picture is to demonstrate the postsynaptic membrane (yellow) adherent to the underlying presynaptic terminal (green). 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_016: This slide begins an entirely different series: relating to artificial membranes. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_017: Montal’s methods for incorporation of proteins in such lipid bilayers. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_018: These two slides show artificial membranes as displayed by freeze-etching methods. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_019: These two slides show artificial membranes as displayed by freeze-etching methods. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_020: The next five slides refer to myelinated nerves. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_021: An axon runs horizontally across the figure. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_022: A thin section e.m. shows compact myelin slanting through the upper half of the picture. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_023: A thin section e.m. with an insert showing greater detail. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_024: The left half of this slide is made up of a freeze-etching image above and a thin section image below. 5 January, 1977.

P0452n03_013_025: The axon is impressed from behind by the a diagonal sequence of bumps ovoid in shape, usually four in number which slant upwards to the right from one margin of the band to the next. 5 January, 1977.

Dates

1978

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