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

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 ...

Neuronal cell bodies in dorsal root sensory ganglia ... olfactory ensheathing cells envelop the axons of the olfactory nerve. Axon terminals at the skeletal neuromuscular junction are tightly ...

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 ...

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 ...