An international team of scientists led by Université de Montréal medical professor Frédéric Charron, director of the ...

Axons can be shaped like strings of pearls, research in mice and people show. How that shape may influence brain signaling is not yet clear.

In a study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, thin filaments radiating from nerve cells that transmit electrical signals from cell to cell ...

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

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

New research challenges traditional views on axon structure, presenting a "pearls-on-a-string" model where action potential ...

But neurons are not alone in the brain or elsewhere in the nervous system: Brain cells called glia play various supporting roles to keep the system running smoothly. Between the axon of a ...

However, at the junction between Schwann cells, the axon membrane is exposed ... pain sensibility within the autonomous area of the nerve S2 Return of some degree of superficial cutaneous pain ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists have presented new evidence that an armlike structure of mammalian brain cells may be a ...

Curiously, they found that axons had disappeared ... netrin1 levels specifically altered the patterning of certain nerve cells in the dorsal spinal cord. When netrin1 levels increased, certain ...

University of Virginia researchers’ laboratory findings could be life-changing for those suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. Funding from UVA’s Brain Institute will help them take their ...