We now know that the axon has only a modest repertoire of local protein synthesis. Instead, it depends largely on materials synthesized in the nerve cell body and delivered by axonal transport.

Communication in these cells is long distance, explained Goldstein. “If you imagine the cell body as a 50-foot room, the axon could extend up to 200 miles away,” he said. “The cell would have to ship ...

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 ...

A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin ... These receive incoming impulses from other neurones. Receptor cells detect a change in the environment (a stimulus) and start ...

They discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells. And the movement of the ...