Axons in brain cells may resemble “pearls on a string” rather than tubes. A new study highlights how axon shape impacts brain signaling and offers new insights into neuron structure. Axons in brain ...

“Understanding the structure of axons is important for understanding brain cell signaling,” Shigeki Watanabe at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who led the study, said in a press ...

The axons of a neuron – the arm-like structures that stretch out and exchange signals with other brain cells like wires – are often depicted as sausage-like cylindrical tubes, but new imaging ...

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For more than a century, axons — the slender arms of brain cells — have been depicted as uniform tubes. These structures are responsible for transmitting information across neurons.

Abstract: The morphological properties of axons, such as their branching patterns and oriented structures, are of great interest for biologists in the study of the synaptic connectivity of neurons. In ...

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During the development of the olfactory epithelium (OE), olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) express only one member of the odorant receptor (OR) gene family, and O ...

This important study leverages the power of Drosophila genetics and sparsely-labeled neurons to propose a new model for neuronal injury signaling. The authors present convincing evidence to support ...