Sentences with phrase «axon bundles»

This disruption causes a change in the way light interacts with the tissue, such that the axon bundles exhibit less birefringence and also lower reflectance (back scatter).

In contrast, axon bundles spanning the two membranes were clearly nonadherent and would undergo free lateral motion with agitation of the chamber.

Not exact matches

Some of the axons grew as much as 1.5 millimeters, connecting to the corpus callosum, a bundle of neurons connecting the left and right cerebral hemispheres.

And inside each axon is a bundle of nanowires, including the microtubule.

The amount of white matter — the bundles of axons that connect different parts of the brain — did not differ, nor did the overall surface area of the brain cortex.

OLs formed before tamoxifen injection are red, newly - forming OLs have a yellow «cell body» containing the nucleus surrounded by a green «bundle of sticks» which are short stretches of myelin wrapped around thread - like axons.

Restrictions in the motion and speed of the molecules give researchers clues to identify larger brain tracts, or bundles of axons that link one brain region to another.

At one point, the researchers witnessed a microglial cell creeping, amoeba - like, through densely interwoven nerve fibers as it displaced a neuronal cell body and its bundle of axons.

Two - photon microscopy image of a layer of the mouse olfactory bulb (viewed head - on from the front) containing relay stations call glomeruli — places where bundles of axons and dendrites meet.

Instead of rigid bones, axons are built around structural elements, mostly bundles of filaments called microtubules.

Researchers used genetically modified mice in which the axons in the corticospinal tract, a bundle of nerves carrying signals from the brain to the spinal cord, were «stained» with fluorescent matter visible under a powerful microscope.

A bundle of more than one million nerve fibers, or axons, which carry visual information from the eye to the brain.