Visual Neuroscience

Posters

the atlas on paper

Two prints from the Microanatomy page, drawn by the same code that draws the site, at A1 — 594 × 841 mm — on white matte paper, each carrying the credits its sources ask for. They will be printed and posted to order by a print-on-demand shop; until it opens, each poster has a page of its own, which the Buy button and the picture open.

The head of The Neurotransmitters poster: its title and the line beneath it.
Microanatomy · skeletal formulas

The Neurotransmitters

Seventeen molecules, from a gas of two atoms to a chain of five amino acids, every one drawn at the same bond length so their sizes compare, with what each does and the family it belongs to; beneath them, where they come from: the catecholamines from tyrosine, the indolamines from tryptophan, GABA from glutamate, acetylcholine made and unmade, nitric oxide from arginine.

Skeletal formulas drawn with RDKit from SMILES, with formulas and average molar masses computed for the forms drawn; the words are the Microanatomy page’s.
Buy A1 · portrait · matte
The head of The Receptors poster: its title and the line beneath it.
Microanatomy · affinities

The Receptors

A hundred and eight receptors, grouped by the transmitter each answers to, with how tightly each one holds it: binding constants and potencies on a common scale that runs in tenfold steps, further right holding tighter, beside the coupling of each receptor and its natural ligand, and why channels at the synapse let go where G-protein-coupled receptors hold on.

Affinities from the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY (Harding SD et al., Nucleic Acids Res 2024), every number traced to its study; the database is under the Open Database Licence 1.0 and its contents under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Buy A1 · portrait · matte

The pictures show the head of each poster. Printing, payment and delivery are by a print-on-demand shop, a separate business whose checkout takes the payment and the address: nothing is bought through this site or the apps, and a purchase carries the fourteen days a consumer in the United Kingdom has to cancel a distance sale. How that is kept · Terms of use.

The posters say what the site says, from its own data, and carry their credits in a colophon: RDKit and the Guide to PHARMACOLOGY, whose attribution and share-alike terms travel with the receptor data. They are set in Flux, Newsreader and Prata, with Noto for the Greek. Microanatomy · About.