This causes an influx of positive sodium ions into the cell, raising the voltage and depolarizing the membrane. As the voltage increases along the axon, additional sodium channels open, propagating ...

Neurotrophins: key regulators of cell fate and cell shape in ... Neuronal chemotaxis: chick dorsal root axons turn towards high concentrations of nerve growth factor. Science 206, 1079–1080 ...

A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin ... These receive incoming impulses from other neurones. Receptor cells detect a change in the environmental (a stimulus) and start ...

This important study identifies a new key factor in orchestrating the process of glial wrapping of axons in Drosophila wandering larvae. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is convincing ...

In a provocative new study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, thin filaments radiating from nerve cells that transmit electrical signal ...

The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head has received considerable experimental ...

An increase in high-fat, high-fructose foods in people's diets has contributed to a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes.

However, at the junction between Schwann cells, the axon membrane is exposed ... pain sensibility within the autonomous area of the nerve S2 Return of some degree of superficial cutaneous pain ...

Dietmar Fischer. Animal models as well as human cells have shown that cnicin significantly accelerates axon (nerve fibers) ...