Sentences with phrase «axons extending»

They found that stimulating ZI GABA neurons with axons extending into the paraventricular thalamus (PVT) prompted immediate binge - like eating, just two to three seconds after stimulation.

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

Long, thin fibers called axons extend from neural cells, and the particular geometry of the thalamus, with its many connections, makes it particularly vulnerable to injury.

He used an assortment of anatomical tracing techniques to label neurons in their entirety — a cell body with a long axon extending out in one direction and the branched tendrils of dendrites protruding from the other.

Abstract Brain assembly is hypothesized to begin when pioneer axons extend over non-neuronal cells, forming tracts guiding follower axons.

A long fiber called the axon extends from the cell body and is coated with a protective sheath called myelin, which acts like insulation on a wire, protecting the axon and facilitating sending and receiving electrical signals.

Not exact matches

Unexpectedly, the team discovered a thick band of microtubules, a component of the cell's cytoskeleton, that extended from the axon of the neuron into the synaptic terminal and then looped around the interior periphery of the terminal.

One clear characteristic of MS is scarring of myelin, the protective substance surrounding the axons that extend from nerve cells.

The other cells that die are axons, the long fibers extending from the neurons that carry signals from neuron to neuron.

For example, a deep layer 5 pyramidal neuron might snake its gossamer - thin output wire, the axon, to a subcortical target area while also extending a connection to an inhibitory local neuron.

They trip each other up, which prevents the axons from fully extending through the brain and delivering the usual doses of serotonin, says Tom Maniatis, a study coauthor and molecular neuroscientist at Columbia University.

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

Their axons can go great distances, the longest ones extending all the way from the toes to the base of the spine.

«The neurons stayed alive longer, but they didn't extend axons,» Chen says.

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.

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

Individual axons are microscopic in diameter - typically about one micrometre across - but may extend to macroscopic lengths.

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.

Similarly, rat neurons extended axons into the grafted material and cells.

Axons of these nerves leave the spinal cord in the ventral branches (rami) of the spinal nerves, and then separate out as «white rami» (so called from the shiny white sheaths of myelin around each axon) which connect to two chain ganglia extending alongside the vertebral column on the left and right.

In these mice, 90 per cent of the axons in the SC had extended into the wrong areas.

Neurons need large amounts of energy to extend their axons long distances through the body.

These observations prompted us to replace the eye field with EFTF - expressing pluripotent cells to ask if the induced retinal cells could generate a normal eye and if induced retinal ganglion cells would extend axons to and synapse with their normal tectal targets.

In the peripheral nervous system, myelin forms when «membrane tongues» extend from Schwann cells to spirally wrap around an adjacent axon.

The reprogrammed cells formed all seven classes of retinal cells normally found in the eyes, including the retinal ganglion cells, which have axons (optic nerves) that extend to the 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.

For this we inject themselves into the vitreous, into the center of the eye, and what we're finding is that a subset of the injected retinal ganglion cells can go into the retina, the green cells are the donor cells, they extend all of their axons and dendrites.

The labelling is for acetylated tubulin in red (identifying all axons), and green for the cell permeable dye calcein, which is only applied on the axonal side of the chambers (top half) and allows the identification of those neuronal cell bodies (bottom half) that have extended axons to the other side of the microfluidic device.

V2a interneurons are, in fact, some of the longest cells in the body, able to extend their axon — the nerve fibers that transmit electrical impulses — across several vertebrae.

Lower motor neurons have somas within the spinal cord and extend their axons peripherally to innervate skeletal muscles.

Every brain cell, the axon that extends from it, and the synapses that link it with other cells are fragile.

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