“Understanding the structure of axons is important for understanding brain cell signaling,” says Shigeki Watanabe, Ph.D., ...

The nervous system is comprised of two primary cell types ... Myelin is a concentrically laminated membrane structure surrounding an axon around which lamellae (or cellular protrusions) repeat ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that axons, brain cell extensions, are tube-like, revealing instead a "pearl-on-a ...

The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(20), 5636-5649 (2016) 2.Wada F, Nakata A, Tatsu Y, Ooashi N, Fukuda T, Nabetani T, and Kamiguchi H: "Myosin Va and endoplasmic reticulum calcium channel complex ...

Biology textbooks may need a revision, say Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists, who present new evidence that an armlike structure of mammalian brain cells may be a different shape than scientists have ...

Axons in brain cells resemble a string of pearls rather than smooth tubes, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. This ...

Biology textbooks may need a revision, say Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists, who present new evidence that an armlike ...

In a provocative new study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, ...

In a provocative new study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, ...

(C) The neuronal axon is a long membrane-bounded extension ... which transport materials from the cell body to the axon terminals at the synapse. (D) The growth cone contains dendritic actin ...

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