The ultrathin tendrils that zip messages around the nervous system are often drawn as smooth ... nerve fibers called axons may actually be a series of bumps, researchers suggest December 2 in ...

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 ...

This pathway depends on the crossing of neurons from one side of the central nervous system (CNS ... The cause is that axons extending from neurons in the motor cortex of one hemisphere of ...

A scientific investigation led by researchers at HKUST has uncovered promising new avenues for treating central nervous ...

A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin ... These move towards the central nervous system (CNS). The CNS is the brain and spinal cord. It coordinates the responses.

Subscribe for FREE Watanabe had initially seen repeated axon pearling in the nervous system of worms and grew more curious about the structures after a discussion with Swiss scientist Graham Knott, Ph ...

These axons extend over distances long and short ... Schwann cells make myelin in the peripheral nervous system (PNS: nerves) and oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS: brain and ...

Dr. Rasband's team is discovering the functional organization of axons in health as well as disease or injury. The generation, propagation, and modulation of electrical signals in the nervous system ...

and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS consists of the brain and spinal cord. The PNS consists mainly of nerves, which are enclosed bundles of the long fibers or axons, that connect the CNS ...

(The observations were made in unmyelinated axons in a mouse nervous system.) "The reason people have missed this axon morphology before, and that we were able to observe this, is because we are ...

spearheaded by a research team of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), sheds light on new ...