Aisle 23No. 378 of 460
Splashery
Astrocyte
620,001 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Tiny World · Built from a recipe
Astrocyte
" Astrocytes look after the neurons around them, and the ends of their arms, called end-feet, wrap around tiny blood vessels and help control how much blood flows by.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to send a calcium wave out along its arms.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 378 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 23, Tiny World
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 620,001
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Send a calcium wave | Tap | ||
| Calcium wave | Button | ||
| Cell | Color | #35c79a |
About it
An astrocyte is a star-shaped cell in the brain and spinal cord; its name means "star cell." Astrocytes look after the neurons around them, and the ends of their arms, called end-feet, wrap around tiny blood vessels and help control how much blood flows by.
Astrocytes pass messages to each other with waves of calcium, which scientists can watch with dyes that glow. Tap it to send one: a front of green light spreads from the middle out along every arm to the end-feet, and the blood vessel they hold widens for a moment. Faint waves pass by themselves now and then.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,998 at Low, and up to 890,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
