The fiber that conducts the nerve impulse is a tubelike structure. Its operation can be studied by squeezing the contents out of the giant axon of the squid and replacing them with various solutions ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair ...

This cell transport mechanism is crucial to nerve cells, which have the unique property of sending ... “If you imagine the cell body as a 50-foot room, the axon could extend up to 200 miles away,” he ...

slender extensions of nerve cell bodies that transmit messages. Researchers observed axon regrowth in injured mice that received a single treatment injection of the growth-factor protein ...

In the PNS, one Schwann cell forms a single myelin sheath (Figure ... The ratio between axon diameter and that of the total nerve fiber (axon and myelin) is 0.6–0.7, a ratio that is well ...

The conditions are controlled in two ways with chemical and nervous responses. A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath. They are long so they can carry messages up and ...

One of the outstanding problems in understanding optic nerve head dysfunction ... may prevent retinal ganglion cell death in ocular hypertension. The possibility that astrocyte-axon interactions ...

The postulated mechanisms of injury include direct needle trauma, secondary constriction by scar, and direct nerve fiber damage, due to both axon and Schwann cell, with a breakdown in the blood ...

I have a long-standing interest in the biochemistry and cell biology of adipose tissue and how this tissue ... to explore the role of a canonical axon guidance cue, Slit2, in the coordinated responses ...

slender extensions of nerve cell bodies that transmit messages. Researchers observed axon regrowth in injured mice that received a single treatment injection of the growth-factor protein ...