Sentences with phrase «axons of neurons»

Reporting their results in the 30 June issue of Science (p 95), the researchers say that they found axons of neurons which terminate among clusters of trophocytes.

MS is a debilitating neurological disease caused by the destruction of oligodendrocytes, cells that build the myelin sheaths that surround the signal transmitting axons of neurons.

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.

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.

This surrounds and protects the axons of the neurons, helping nerve signals to propagate rapidly.

Specifically, their work centered on the ends / tips of the axons of these neurons, where they release their signals.

The axons of these neurons (green) reach into distant parts of the primitive brain, such as the hypothalamus, broadly affecting brain function.

tau protein A family of proteins that normally stabilize tiny tube - like structures in the axons of neurons — a type of brain cell.

There is another class of nerve - healing substances, known as remyelinating compounds, which stimulate the repair of the protective sheath around the axon of the neurons known as myelin, and which is often damaged in neurological injury and / or dysfunction, especially autoimmune and vaccine - induced demyelination disorders.