A neuron has specialized structures that consist of the dendrite, the axon and the axon initial segment (AIS). The AIS is the site that connects the soma and the distal axon, and responsible for ...
The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...
Everything your brain does—every memory, decision, emotion and command to move—starts with an electrical signal generated by a neuron. One of the most sophisticated cells in the body, every neuron has ...
HOUSTON - (May 24, 2012) - A molecule responsible for the proper formation of a key portion of the nervous system finds its way to the proper place not because it is actively recruited, but instead ...
Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have, for the first time, witnessed nerve plasticity in the axon in motion. Our nerve cells communicate through rapid transmission of ...
Like thermostats that switch on heating or cooling to regulate temperature, neurons tune their excitability up or down to weather environmental changes. Who would have thought, though, that nerve ...
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