Sentences with phrase «as axons»

For a damaged nerve to regain function, its long, signal - transmitting extensions known as axons need to grow and establish new connections to other cells.

Indeed, the rapid remodeling of the axon during local morphogenetic events such as axon elongation, branch formation and elimination and synapse consolidation has an important energetic toll.

The out - of - place organs extended information - transmitting nerve fibers known as axons into the animal's brain.

It's made up mainly of cells such as neurons, glial cells and dendrites, as well as axons that extend from neurons to carry signals.

To test this hypothesis, we follow the movement of proteins inside axons in real time, using advanced microscopy techniques that allow us to determine in detail whether this movement is impaired as an axon ages.

Many of these long genes encoded proteins involved in neuronal functions, such as axon guidance, calcium signaling, and synapse formation.

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But when the researchers looked at what these genes did, they noticed a pattern: Six of the variants were in genes related in some way to the development of connections between neurons known as axons.

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

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.

Thanks to a fibrous prolongation known as the axon, and to the end region of the axon known as the synapse, neurons can send signals to other cells, often quite far away.

Researchers in Dr. Charron's laboratory study neurons, the nerve cells that make up the central nervous system, as well as their long extensions known as axons.

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