Sentences with phrase «brain neurons extend»

Brain neurons extend everywhere, making pathways difficult to identify.

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The peripheral nervous system or PNS, is part of the nervous system, and consists of the nerves and neurons that reside or extend outside the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) to serve the limbs and organs, for example.

During brain development, neurons have to connect to each other, which they do by extending their long axons to touch one another.

In July, however, researchers reported in the journal Neuron that the stringy extensions, or axons, of mRGCs extend into parts of the mouse brain involved in conscious vision, not just the parts of the brain that control unconscious responses to light.

Each Purkinje cell receives messages from a climbing fiber, a type of neuron that extends from the brain stem and sends feedback about the associated muscles.

The VTA contains dopamine neurons whose axons extend to many other regions of the brain.

Enikolopov now wants to extend the team's findings to fully fledged neurons from a rat's brain.

We are using these new tools to image the structural features of individual cells, such as the cell body and the axons of the cells, which are long fibers that extend from each neuron, together forming the optic nerve that transmits visual information to the brain.