Like a garland of cranberries hung on a Christmas tree, nerve fibers called axons may actually be a series of bumps, researchers suggest December 2 in Nature Neuroscience. The claim is intriguing ...

The case in the CNS is illustrated. Following demyelination, a demyelinated axon has two possible fates. The normal response to demyelination, at least in most experimental models, is spontaneous ...

Axon guidance is the pathfinding step that enables axons—the longest part of a neuron, through which the nerve impulse is propagated outside the cell—to be correctly directed to their target.

1a). Figure 1: Treatment with chondroitinase ABC enhanced dopaminergic nigrostriatal axon regeneration in vivo. Finally, the mean number of TH-immunoreactive cell bodies in the substantia nigra ...