Sentences with phrase «known as axons»

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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Other vital structures, the axons and dendrites — known collectively as neurites — that project from the nerve cells and send and receive messages are dependent on this neural transport network.

The study describes how RPM - 1 regulates the activity of a single protein known as DLK - 1, a protein that regulates neuron development and plays an essential role in axon regeneration.

RIPK1, the researchers found, inflicts damage by directly attacking the body's myelin production plants — nerve cells known as oligodendrocytes, which secrete the soft substance, rich in fat and protein that wraps around axons to support their function and shield them from damage.

In a study published last summer in PLOS ONE, Lee and his colleagues found that the protein p45 promotes nerve regeneration by preventing the axon sheath (known as myelin) from inhibiting regrowth.

«To reach their target, growing axons rely on molecules known as guidance cues, which instruct them on which direction to take by repelling or attracting them to their destination,» explains Dr. Charron, Director of the Molecular Biology of Neural Development research unit at the IRCM.

Although Wnts were better known because of their role as morphogens — proteins that pattern bodily structures and determine cell fates — Zou recently showed how members of the Wnt family served to guide pathfinding axons up and down the spinal cord by attracting or repelling receptors on the growth cones of sensory or motor nerves.

The principle behind this type of imaging is that retinal ganglion cell axons exhibit an optical property known as birefringence.

Eventually the paintings emerge, but the little bubbles, as we call them, are stimulating specific types of retinal ganglion cells in very specific ways, which is necessary, we know from other studies, to encourage their ongoing health by transmitting electrical signals down their axons to the brain.

The axon is also known as a nerve fiber, and it functions to transmit nerve impulses away from the nerve cell body to different neurons, muscles and glands.