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.

By tapping into the enigmatic theory of how neurons transmit signals, scientists have proven they can one day build computer ...

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 ...

In 2017, Butler and her colleagues overturned a long-standing paradigm about axon growth during embryonic development. For decades, scientists had believed that axons -- thin fibers that connect cells ...

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 ...

Memories are created in a matter of seconds. Researchers now may have begun to uncover how behavioral timescale learning ...

Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA ...