LOUNGE ACT
Dan Levin / 2002
31”h x 8”w x 6”d
altered skateboard
www.danlevin.com
Tube Breakdown
Depicted is an electron tomography image of degenerating neurons from ion regulatory protein (IRP) knockout mice, which develop progressive neurodegenerative symptoms that resemble human movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. The 3D tomogram was reconstructed from a series of TEM projection images tilted from -70° to +70° with an interval of 2°, and then segmented based on structural features, and presented with volume rendering.
Image: The artwork illustrates a volume-rendered representation of an axonal section in the IRP knockout mouse brain, displaying the axonal membrane (purple), the oligodendrocyte membrane and myelin sheath (blue), neurofilaments (pink), and invaginated double-walled vesicles containing the oligodendrocytic cytoplasm and ferritin molecules (red dots).
