A scientific investigation led by researchers at HKUST has uncovered promising new avenues for treating central nervous ...

Most scientists studying SCI strive to develop therapies that preserve spinal cord tissue or promote axon regeneration ... most notably to the immune system. Future studies should determine ...

Dr. Rasband's team is discovering the functional organization of axons in health as well as disease or injury. The generation, propagation, and modulation of electrical signals in the nervous system ...

This pathway depends on the crossing of neurons from one side of the central nervous system (CNS ... The cause is that axons extending from neurons in the motor cortex of one hemisphere of ...

A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin ... These move towards the central nervous system (CNS). The CNS is the brain and spinal cord. It coordinates the responses.

But neurons are not alone in the brain or elsewhere in the nervous system: Brain cells called glia play various supporting roles to keep the system running smoothly. Between the axon of a ...

(The observations were made in unmyelinated axons in a mouse nervous system.) “The reason people have missed this axon morphology before, and that we were able to observe this, is because we are ...

We are particularly interested in understanding how receptors located on the surface of developing axons and neurons interact with extracellular ligands to guide the development of the nervous system ...