This review considers the role that optic nerve head astrocytes might play in the initiation of axon damage, based on the hypothesis that these cells are sensitive to mechanical or ischaemic ...

When combined with spectroscopy, MRI allows axonal damage to be quantified ... of the disease process and from the evidence that large axons need myelin to survive and to maintain axonal flow ...

Cells grown in dishes, for instance, usually have thick axons that look cylindrical unless they’re damaged. “But it is possible that a subset of axons have this pearl geometry even in normal ...

After a spinal-cord injury or a nerve injury, he explained, Schwann cells change into repair cells that contribute to the breakdown and removal of damaged axons, a normal function of the repair ...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — Axon, the company that makes Tasers and police body cameras, is halting its proposed new headquarters and housing project in north Scottsdale but said it remains ...