Image of the Month

2026 ibidi Calendar, May

Louisa Snape
University College London, UK

The image shows a confocal micrograph of neuro- muscular junctions within mouse lumbrical muscles. The network of motor neurons innervating the muscle is visualized with labelling of microtubules (β-III-tubulin, green) and myelinated Schwann cells (S100β, blue). Post-synaptic terminals are stained with α-bungarotoxin (nAChRs, pink). A Zeiss LSM 980 microscope with a 20x objective was used to create a maximum intensity projection from a 3×3 tiled z-stack image (32 sections, 1 μm steps).