...[autonomic nerve fibers] play an important role in the predisposition to foot ulceration... A novel technique to measure the density of autonomic nerve fibers that innervate sweat glands could ...

(A) Illustration of myelinated nerve fiber and saltatory conduction of action potential. An example of PNS myelinated nerve fiber is shown. (B) Illustration of transverse section of myelinated ...

The findings, published today (Jan. 16) in eLife, suggest that nerve fibers in the neuro-cutaneous unit tunnel through a type of skin cell called keratinocytes, in a process called ensheathment.

Fast nerve fibers respond when our skin is pricked or poked, relaying messages to an area of the brain called the somatosensory cortex. But in recent years, the neuroscientist Prof Francis McGlone ...

Scientists examine the effectiveness of an antibody targeting cell adhesion molecule 1 in alleviating pain-induced neuronal ...

Burgess, J, Marshall, A, Rapteas, L, Hamill, KJ, Marshall, A, Malik, RA, Frank, B and Alam, U (2024) Automated ...