Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, led by Dr. Shigeki Watanabe, have found that axons aren’t the smooth, cylindrical ...

It seems likely that multiple signaling pathways, some involving kinases, function cooperatively to define precise sites of synapse formation between axons and dendrites, and to determine ...

The three best examples of ion channel/receptor clustering in the nervous system are found at the synapse, the node of Ranvier, and the axon initial segment (AIS). In the case of the synapse, the ...

Lichtman and colleagues have visualized the degradation of axonal fragments during synapse elimination. Previous studies of fluorescently labelled motor axons identified a trail of fluorescent ...

Central to this activity are synapses, the junctions where branches of neurons connect, similar to electrical wires. Here, an axon from one neuron links to a dendrite of another. At these synapses ...

Neuronal activity modulates synapse formation in the developing PDE axon. a, Schematic representation and line scan of the ...

The activated axon releases chemical messengers called ... This process is driven by synaptic plasticity. Synapses are gaps between neurons that facilitate the transfer of information.