Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, led by Dr. Shigeki Watanabe, have found that axons aren’t the smooth, cylindrical ...

It seems likely that multiple signaling pathways, some involving kinases, function cooperatively to define precise sites of synapse formation between axons and dendrites, and to determine ...

Central to this activity are synapses, the junctions where branches of neurons connect, similar to electrical wires. Here, an axon from one neuron links to a dendrite of another. At these synapses ...

An electrical impulse cannot directly cross the gap so a different mechanism has to be used. Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent ...

An electrical impulse cannot directly cross the gap so a different mechanism has to be used.

In a provocative new study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, ...

In particular, Joseph von Gerlach speculated that axons and dendrites were fused and formed ... did not include the 'valve-like' effect of the synapses, which is responsible for the one-way ...