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 ...

Here, an axon from one neuron links to a dendrite of another. At these synapses, neurotransmitters carry signals across the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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