Neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's involve progressive neuronal loss due to ...

By influencing calcium homeostasis, local protein synthesis and the endoplasmic reticulum, a small protein called Rab10 emerges as a crucial cytoplasmic regulator of neuropeptide secretion.

Medically reviewed by Huma Sheikh, MD Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals ...

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 ...

Multiple sclerosis, the prototype of demyelinating disease in man, is a relapsing-remitting or progressively disabling disease of unknown cause. The first pathological descriptions of the disease ...

"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 ...

Researchers suggest results could reignite interest in DLK inhibition as a treatment strategy for neurodegenerative diseases.

Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Nerve cells, or neurons, are the basic functional units of the nervous system. Multiple interconnected neurons form a neural circuit and ...

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 ...

Some adult neurons have projections that are amazingly long – thousands of times the length of their cell bodies in some cases. This means that during development, the growing cells need to be able to ...

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 ...