I was basically bored at work today and started making those “lolbios” today using the lolcat method (I guess thats who I would credit). Sadly, if you aren’t up on your neuroscience the joke there will probably be missed. The red cell is a neuron (which is actually probably easy to guess) but the cell in green is called an astrocyte. One of the jobs of the astrocyte is to clear potassium released from neurons during firing from the extracellular space. Hence the attempt at humor.

There is actually a funnier, at least to the people in my lab, one concerning glutamate uptake by astrocytes.

http://flickr.com/photos/bigremy/502791174/