The synaptic cleft, meaning the distance between two nerve cells or between a nerve cell and a muscle cell, is just 10 to 50 nanometers—too small for conventional microscopes.

The synaptic cleft, meaning the distance between two nerve cells or between a nerve cell and a muscle cell, is just 10 to 50 nanometers – too small for conventional microscopes.

Electron microscope image of a nerve fiber with myelin (in black) in the optic nerve of an MS patient. In yellow, the spaces between myelin layers that are enlarged in MS) Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

However, when Erbacher looked at skin tissue under the microscope, he noticed that nerve fibers did not just grow around ... By imaging several layers in a sliver of tissue, the researchers could ...

Nerve-cell bodies, nervous prolongations and nervous ... theory was obtained only after the introduction of the electron microscope, which allowed identification of synapses between neurons ...

Learn about nerve cells ... model animal and plant cell Animal and plant cells can be visualised using a model. Find out how to make them. How to observe cells under a microscope Discover how ...

The tail enables the sperm to swim. The nerve cell is extended, so that nerves can run to and from different parts of the body to the central nervous system. The cell has extensions and branches ...