The conditions are controlled in two ways with chemical and nervous responses. A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath. They are long so they can carry messages up and ...

Researchers have used genetic tools to investigate how specific nerve cells in the brain respond after a spinal cord injury.

One of the outstanding problems in understanding optic nerve head dysfunction ... may prevent retinal ganglion cell death in ocular hypertension. The possibility that astrocyte-axon interactions ...

A bundle of neurones is called a nerve. There are three main types of neurone: sensory, motor and relay. They have some features in common: A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty ...

Each nerve cell, or neuron, has three parts: a cell body, which contains a nucleus, mitochondria and other organelles essential for cell function; a long tail called an axon, which transmits ...