Sentences with phrase «long axons»
"Long axons" refers to the long, thread-like endings of nerve cells that transmit signals to other cells in the body. Full definition
A mouse brain's motor cortex shows a subset of neurons, labeled in orange, that have long axons extending to the auditory cortex.
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«Collectively, our recent work offers significant evidence that RPM - 1 coordinates how long an axon grows with construction of synaptic connections,» said Grill.
Neuronal activity typically requires sensory input — for example, a taste or smell — that gets received by neurons» dendrites and then transmitted as an electrochemical message to other cells via long axons.
Concussions that lead to lasting brain dysfunction cause SNTF to accumulate in vulnerable long axon tracts of the brain, and its blood elevation is a measure of this diffuse axonal injury.
Contrary to their name, SA cells actually have very long axons, and they reach from the neighborhood of one glomerulus to others, relatively far off in the bulb.
At a higher level of magnification you can see inside the neurons where little corpuscles stream down the long axons like traffic down a highway.
It's because motor neurons have long axons.
During brain development, neurons have to connect to each other, which they do by extending their long axons to touch one another.
The longest axons in the human body, for example, are those of the sciatic nerve, which run from the base of the spine to the big toe of each foot.
The injuries crush and sever the long axons of spinal cord nerve cells, blocking communication between the brain and the body and resulting in paralysis below the injury.
Another possible way to make nerve impulses travel more slowly involves growing longer axons, so that signals have a greater distance to travel.
Neurons sense a signal through branching dendrites, carry this signal to the cell body, and send it onwards through a long axon to signal the next neuron.
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.
This «action potential» propagates down the long axon (right, below) and triggers the release of chemical messengers stored at the synaptic terminals — where neurons talk to each other.