Sentences with phrase «travel along the axon»

When the genomes «wake up,» new virus particles are made and these can travel along the axon back out to the peripheral tissue, which creates the cold sores that can spread infection to new hosts.

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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.

These electrical pulses travel along specialized extensions called axons to cause the release of chemical signals elsewhere in the brain.