Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, led by Dr. Shigeki Watanabe, have found that axons aren’t the smooth, cylindrical ...

And since axons are connected to dendrites of other neurons, you end up with this vastly complicated neural network. Since we’re all a bunch of electronic types here, you might be thinking of ...

Despite what most diagrams show, axons – the main arms of neurons – are not a smooth cylinder, they say, but more like a string of pearls. The size and spacing of those nanoscopic bumps are ...

but possibly attractant for some neurons, also a nerve growth factor Secreted and cell surface molecules Multimeric receptor complexes on axons or dendrites and can regulate gene expression ...

These battery-free, subcellular-sized devices, made of a soft polymer, are designed to gently wrap around different parts of ...

My lab studies how neuronal circuits form during embryonic development. Specifically, we identify and study genes required for the correct navigation of neuronal processes (axons and dendrites), a ...

The neurons were nonmyelinated (they were without the myelin insulating cover that surrounds the axon). The researchers found the bubbly, pear shape of axons among all of the tens of thousands of ...