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Brain tissue is largely divided between domains of astrocytes. Mouse astrocytes, whose gap juncrions were closed, were filled with two different dyes to visualize their respective domains. In a human brain, a single astrocyte domain can encompass over million neuronal synapses. Reprinted from (Pekny and Wilhelmsson 2006).
