Axon regeneration in the central nervous system (CNS) is a critical area of research, particularly because the ability of neurons to repair themselves after injury is limited. This limitation ...

A scientific investigation led by researchers at HKUST has uncovered promising new avenues for treating central nervous ...

A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin ... These move towards the central nervous system (CNS). The CNS is the brain and spinal cord. It coordinates the responses.

The nervous system is broadly divided into two sections ... or other signals via receptors or through gap junctions (direct connections between two membranes), axons that propagate action potentials ...

Dr. Rasband's team is discovering the functional organization of axons in health as well as disease or injury. The generation, propagation, and modulation of electrical signals in the nervous system ...

But neurons are not alone in the brain or elsewhere in the nervous system: Brain cells called glia play various supporting roles to keep the system running smoothly. Between the axon of a ...

The pathway of the visual system has been the most deliberately studied nervous subsystem. Therefore, it presents a working model to gain knowledge of how axons migrate through intermediate ...

Some axons are extremely short ... Symptoms can vary depending on which part or parts of the nervous system have damaged myelin. For instance, demyelination of nerves in the lower spine may ...

(The observations were made in unmyelinated axons in a mouse nervous system.) "The reason people have missed this axon morphology before, and that we were able to observe this, is because we are ...