Sentences with phrase «along axons»

VDACs are present in all neurons, especially the sodium and potassium channels along the axons, which play a fundamental role in the generation of action potential and signaling between neurons.

And within a few seconds of the puffing, small swellings appeared like beads along the axons.

Co-author Jason Vevea, a UW — Madison postdoctoral fellow, produced videos showing tagged molecules of botulinum toxin moving along the axons connecting neurons.

DTI «sees» the movement of water molecules within and along axons, the nerve fibers that constitute the brain's white matter.

He uses a technique called diffusion spectrum imaging, which traces neural connections by following water molecules as they diffuse along axons.

The researchers set up a system to grow asymmetric nerve cells in an observation chamber and use live cell imaging to track how rabies virus particles are transported along the axons.

This interrupts the transport of cellular materials along axonal microtubules, causing these materials to accumulate at several points along the axon where they may give rise to varicosities.

However, when the researchers grew nerve cells that had no p75NTR in their observation chamber, they found that virus transport along the axon is less frequent and much slower.

When the genomes «wake up,» new virus particles are made and these can travel along the axon back out to the peripheral tissue, which creates the cold sores that can spread infection to new hosts.

Studies conducted by Hendry at the Australian National University and by K. Stockel and H. Thoenen at the Basel Institute for Immunology have demonstrated that NGF is taken up at the terminal nerve endings of the sympathetic fibers and transported back to the neuronal cell body along the axon.

Merck states: «The myelin sheaths of many nerve fibers promote transmission of the neural impulse along the axon.

Not exact matches

Researchers from The Ohio State University have announced they have discovered how blows to the head cause numerous small swellings along the length of neuronal axons.

Nerve cells communicate by means of electrical impulses, which are transmitted along neural processes known as axons.

When the researchers administered drugs to inhibit the movement of certain «motor» proteins that transport mitochondria and other cargo within the cell by traveling along microtubules, the mitochondria accumulated in the axon of the neuron and never made it to the synaptic terminal.

In experiments on transgenic mice, teams at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University found that tau jumps from cell to cell in a predictable way along neural highways known as axons.

The nervous system further directs these wandering axons by placing guide cells along their path.

Oligodendrocytes, the cells that are known to produce the myelin sheaths which enable saltatory conduction of action potentials along the myelinated axons, are modulators of signal transmission along neuronal connections (axons) and also promote neuronal survival by providing metabolic support.

A healthy optic nerve has axons transmitting information from the eye to the brain along the nerve after considerable information processing and synaptic transmission between various cell types within the retina.

These electrical pulses travel along specialized extensions called axons to cause the release of chemical signals elsewhere in the brain.

Today a rising star in neuroscience at the University of Chicago, Zou made a name for himself by being the first to discover the molecular signals that guide axons longitudinally along the spinal cord, toward or away from the brain.

The delivery is active along neuronal axons, which function like highways in human societies.

Projection neurons form connections with memory neurons at synaptic junctions that resemble small bulbs strung along the wire - like axons.

In neurons, new mitochondria are made in the cell body, migrate out to the tippy end by being moved along by ATP powered motors along the outside of the axon.

Nicotine Elicits Prolonged Calcium Signaling along Ventral Hippocampal Axons.

Type III Nrg1 Back Signaling Enhances Functional TRPV1 along Sensory Axons Contributing to Basal and Inflammatory Thermal Pain Sensation.

Kwon SK, Sando R 3rd, Lewis TL, Hirabayashi Y, Maximov A, Polleux F. (2016) LKB1 Regulates Mitochondria - Dependent Presynaptic Calcium Clearance and Neurotransmitter Release Properties at Excitatory Synapses along Cortical Axons.

Neurons, the main communicators, form connections with other neurons via structures called dendrites, which receive the incoming electrical signals used to communicate information within and beyond the brain, and axons that pass along the message to the next cell across synapses, the gaps between cells.

Myelin forms an insulating layer around these axons, the purpose of which is to allow electrical impulses to transmit efficiently and rapidly along the axonal pathways.

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