Researchers from the University of Rochester have begun an ambitious project to study if living neurons can transmit light through their axons—the long, tail-like nerve fibers of neurons that resemble ...

Taken together with the finding that axons control the survival of SCPs (see above), these studies identify a discrete phase in early nerve development when neurons and glia depend on each other ...

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

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 ...

Distribution of Ranvier nodes along myelinated axons is a critical determinant of conduction velocity, significantly influencing spike arrival timing and hence neural circuit function. The patterns of ...

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

When axons move or expand from the core of the brain toward the cortex or outer layer of the brain and they experience a stress created by the folding in the white matter, they just change their ...

The data convincingly show that the transcription factor Sp1 regulates ephrin-mediated axon guidance in the spinal cord. Although the authors show that Sp1 and its co-activators p300 and CBP are ...

She began working with Drug Discovery News in October 2020. View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Much like tree branches, hundreds of axons extend from neurons during development.