Typically, scientists study how the brain communicates with adipose tissue through the sympathetic nervous system and how ... a tail-like extension called the axon. The spinal cord has some ...

Using a new method to study how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have discovered that gut bacteria can alter ...

"I have yet to encounter a single human being who says, 'There's a bunch of plastic in my brain and I'm totally cool with ...

The central nervous system (CNS), composed ... 2008). The lack of tissue regeneration is attributed to an overall absence of axon-growth promoting factors (eg, the local presentation of growth ...

US researchers have examined almost 100 samples from brains and found an unexpectedly high concentration of plastic in them.

Drugs targeting amyloid plaques have failed to show efficacy in clinical trials. A new approach is needed to tackle AD ...

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 ...

Microglia are tissue-resident immune cells that support ... microglia were critical for remyelinating axons in the central nervous system to restore normal nerve function. "That is massively ...

Findings on cephalopod nerve cords highlight segmentation's role in sucker movement control, advancing knowledge of neural architectures in soft-bodied species.

Methods Archived sera/cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were evaluated by tissue-based immunofluorescence assay to identify patients with identical axon initial segment (AIS ... AIS-specific staining on ...

Introduction: Sciatic nerve injury is a common injury of the nervous system. Stem cell-based therapies ... was injected into the injured area, the muscle tissue was replaced, the skin was sutured, and ...