The first pathological descriptions of the disease 150 years ago already showed that demyelinated axons could degenerate. Recent evidence suggests that multiple sclerosis also affects neurons ...

During brain development neurons send out axons, long thin processes. Axons grow towards a target area, where they eventually form synaptic connections with target cells to form functional neuronal ...

1 Neurons are composed of a cell body containing the nucleus, dendrites that receive chemical, electrical, or other signals via receptors or through gap junctions (direct connections between two ...

"Where we have convex and concave patterns because of folding, we have tensile stresses and compressive stresses. When axons move or expand from the core of the brain toward the cortex or outer layer ...

Myelinated axons are present in sensory neurons and motor neurons, but not all sensory and motor neurons are myelinated. Most neurons that carry signals regarding movement and higher-level ...

Although firing speed remained unchanged in cylindrical axons, pearled axons showed faster action potentials when sodium channels were periodically spaced at 190nm. Next, the researchers tested the ...

In a recent report in Neuron (22, 89–101, 1999), Marie Filbin and her colleagues at the Hunter College of the City University of New York have elegantly shown how mature neurons can overcome ...

The growth cones aid in the extension of the neuron’s axon. They also detect chemicals in the surrounding environment that help guide the neurons’ projections to the appropriate targets. In mice, ...

Eleven foals in the Pacific Northwest were diagnosed with a condition called Equine Juvenile Spinocerebellar Ataxia (EJSCA).

Dr. Rasband's team is discovering the functional organization of axons in health as well as disease or injury. The generation, propagation, and modulation of electrical signals in the nervous system ...

A research team has established an innovative intracranial pre-olivary pretectal nucleus (OPN) optic tract injury model ...

Interestingly, HDAC8 is specifically produced in Schwann cells surrounding sensory neurons that transmit information ... repair task force' that restores axons The peripheral nervous system ...