Alter just one section of the protein responsible for making a muscle cell a muscle cell — and it makes nerve cells instead March 19 ... Faced with the incredible variety of structure and composition ...

Some biologists regarded its fine structure as ... indicate independent nerve cells 25,26. Thereafter, cell theory as applied to the nervous system became known as the 'neuron theory'.

Gray matter is made up of neuron cell bodies and dendrites and is responsible ... White matter is made up of axons, which are ...

Researchers used advanced cryo-electron microscopy to capture atomic-level images of how glutamate, a key neurotransmitter, ...

or nerve cells, refine their positions in the brain after birth. Their study shed light on the evolutionary transition from the three-layered cortex, considered an ancient structure, to the six ...

"This causes the pyramidal cell, a type of neuron in the brain that ... the researchers found that rhEPO changes the structure of the connections between nerve cells, the synaptic transmission ...

“When injured, [epithelial cells] 'scream' to their neighbors, slowly, persistently and over surprising distances. It's like a nerve's impulse, but 1,000 times slower,” said Granick in a statement.

In their current study, which has been published in the journal eLife, the researchers investigated its effect on human nerve cells that they had cultivated from stem cells. The result ...