Sentences with phrase «along the nerve axons»

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.