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Effect of Amph on DA Neurons by ~Strayfish:iconStrayfish:

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One of my latest assignments, for textbook illustration, specific topics in neurology. I decided to look at synaptic clefts and the topic I chose ended up being the effects of amphetamine on dopaminergic neurons.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 was used to make the basic shapes and moecules, and Adobe Photoshop CS2 was used for the shading and detail. And many, many iterations of this happened in pencil before this layout was decided upon.

I like how it turned out; my bf described the texture of the neurons as resembling "dolphin skin," which I think is pretty cool. It's difficult to visualize structures on this level without some creative constructs so I am happy that it turned out looking kind of unique and hopefully tells a good story too.

The final has text and arrows, but I'm likely not going to post it here. If anyone would like an explanation of what is happening, I'd be happy to provide it.

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~Boxxer-auction Apr 5, 2009, 11:41:44 AM
That looks fantastic! I cna't wait to see more anatomical stuff, it's sp fascinating....
Funny enough I still rmeeber how this procedure works from Bio... Well, excluding the specific names of those long words.... xD
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`Mollinda Apr 5, 2009, 11:55:02 AM
I love seeing actual technical illustrations in the technical illustration gallery :#1:

I'd love to see what's going on :D

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~Nikufei Apr 5, 2009, 12:16:16 PM
I have no idea what's going on but I'd like to 8D that looks so hard to create... X__X

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*MuseSilver Apr 5, 2009, 9:31:59 PM
I'm so ignorant to biology details, but that looks awesome. Great work dear! :heart:

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~Strayfish Apr 8, 2009, 11:58:01 AM
Aww, well, unless you took university-level bio it'd probably be kinda difficult to follow without a lot of explanation of terms anyway :) All you need to know is that those are neurons in the brain, the red balls are dopamine (makes you happy and active) and the blue ones are amphetamine (speed, meth, ecstasy are all derivatives of this). Amphetamine promotes ++ release of dopamine (making you REALLY happy and active) and then later you crash because your neurons get fed up and stop making receptors for the dopamine, so it can't affect you anymore.

I probably made that unnecessarily complicated anyway :/

But yeah, I did my own research for the pic, and trust me, my teacher couldn't follow it without like 3 explanations either and she's been a medical illustrator for decades.

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~Strayfish Apr 8, 2009, 11:58:10 AM
Thanks! :D

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~Strayfish Apr 8, 2009, 11:59:19 AM
See my reply to MuseSilver? Haha.

It wasn't that bad for rendering really, just went through many, many design stages for increasing clarity. So many O_O

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~Strayfish Apr 8, 2009, 12:01:20 PM
I probably should post the version with the legend/explanation at some point ^^;

I'm glad I chose the right category for it... they don't really have anything for medical illustration, but it's definitely a technical degree and not an "artistic" one (not to say that creativity/artistic skill isn't promoted). :/

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