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

A new study may overturn the century-old understanding of how neurons are shaped—but not everyone is on board.

Axons can be shaped like strings of pearls, research in mice and people show. How that shape may influence brain signaling is not yet clear.

An international team of scientists led by Université de Montréal medical professor Frédéric Charron, director of the ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and the dendrite of a receiving neuron is a gap called the synapse—the site at which signals are passed between the brain cells. The nervous system ...

A neuron-specific splice variant of agrin is released ... to rule out indirect effects via quantitative changes in axon or dendrite outgrowth, this blocking experiment strongly suggests that ...

Watanabe had initially seen repeated axon pearling in the nervous system ... In another experiment, the scientists removed cholesterol from the neuron's membrane to make it less stiff and more ...

Here, an axon from one neuron links to a dendrite of another. At these synapses, neurotransmitters carry signals across the gap, instructing the receiving neuron to pass on an electrical signal to ...

An international team of scientists led by Université de Montréal medical professor Frédéric Charron, director of the ...

Consider a neuron, or nerve cell. Each neuron has an axon, a cable-like appendage that transmits electrical signals to nearby neurons. Those electrical signals help your brain perceive your ...