...[autonomic nerve fibers] play an important role in the predisposition to foot ulceration... A novel technique to measure the density of autonomic nerve fibers that innervate sweat glands could ...

A UK study has found that nerve fibers expressing the capsaicin receptor TRPV1 (transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1) are more numerous in colonic tissue from patients with IBS than in ...

Fast nerve fibers respond when our skin is pricked or poked, relaying messages to an area of the brain called the somatosensory cortex. But in recent years, the neuroscientist Prof Francis McGlone ...

The findings, published today (Jan. 16) in eLife, suggest that nerve fibers in the neuro-cutaneous unit tunnel through a type of skin cell called keratinocytes, in a process called ensheathment.

The researchers discovered that netrin1, which is known primarily as a guidance cue that directs growing nerve fibers, also ...

Autism-linked SHANK3 gene mutations disrupt not only neurons but also oligodendrocytes, essential for producing myelin, which ...

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