Image of the Day: Sigh Cells
Two hundred fluorescently labeled neurons on either side of a mouse’s brainstem are responsible for the sighing reflex.
Feb 10, 2016
STANFORD/KRASNOW LAB (VIA EUREKALERT)(See P. Li et al., “The peptidergic control circuit for sighing,” Nature, 2016.)
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