This important study leverages the power of Drosophila genetics and sparsely-labeled neurons to propose a new model for neuronal injury signaling. The authors present convincing evidence to support ...

The claim is intriguing, but it’s too soon to redraw axons, says Pramod Pullarkat, a physicist who studies neuron structure ... the experiments with a type of axon that isn’t wrapped in ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and the dendrite of a receiving neuron is a gap called the synapse—the site at which signals are passed between the brain cells. The nervous system ...

1.Akiyama H, Fukuda T, Tojima T, Nikolaev VO, and Kamiguchi H: "Cyclic nucleotide control of microtubule dynamics for axon guidance." The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(20), 5636-5649 (2016) 2.Wada F, ...

Axon guidance is the pathfinding step that enables axons—the longest part of a neuron, through which the nerve impulse is propagated outside the cell—to be correctly directed to their target.

Neurotransmitters are tiny chemical messengers that carry, boost, and balance signals between neurons (aka nerve cells) and ...

“These findings challenge a century of understanding about axon structure,” Watanabe says. The implications are vast. Axons, as Watanabe explains, are the brain’s communication ...

They discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells. And the movement of the ...