The conditions are controlled in two ways with chemical and nervous responses. A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath. They are long so they can carry messages up and ...

They do so with nervous system tissue that imitates electrical wiring ... and insulation around the axon. Why must glial cells support neurons? Neurons are specialized cells that receive and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...