The first pathological descriptions of the disease 150 years ago already showed that demyelinated axons could degenerate. Recent evidence suggests that multiple sclerosis also affects neurons ...

Following neuron migration, neurons send out an axon and are ultimately able to create the rudimentary networks necessary to facilitate information processing and behavioral patterns. The pathway ...

In 1887, Ramón y Cajal became Professor of Histology and Pathological ... results have indicated that these neurons have recurrent axon collaterals. Our own Golgi impregnations of adult cat ...

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 ...

For more than a century, axons — the slender arms of brain cells — have been depicted as uniform tubes. These structures are responsible for transmitting information across neurons.

Axons connect neurons across great distances in the nervous system, and this distance is a fundamental vulnerability for neurons. Maintenance of functional connectivity requires robust mechanisms for ...

Injury to that nerve can have a life-changing effect," Drewry said. Twelve weeks after implantation, the authors evaluated how well axons had regenerated, primarily through histology. They found ...