Sentences with phrase «transmitting axons of neurons»

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.

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In the late 1960s, Katz determined that the amount of acetylcholine in a vesicle was related to the electrical potential at the terminal of an axon — the long extension of a neuron that transmits the impulse.

The experience of pain typically starts in receptors near the skin called nociceptors that transmit information through axon fibres to neurons in the spine, then to the brain.

The bottom - right image depicts the outlines of neurons only, with glial cells removed; the bottom — left cube visualizes all the axons, the parts of neurons that transmit signals.

Specifically, the research sheds light on the role of RPM - 1 in the development of axons or nerve fibers — the elongated projections of nerve cells that transmit electrical impulses away from the neuron via synapses.

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.

They help form parts of axons, the long, slender arms that protrude from neurons and transmit information, performing countless essential functions.

Axons are the long projections of neurons that conduct electrical impulses, and information is transmitted from one neuron to a second neuron across the synapses located at the ends of neurons.