Much like the insulation around the wires in electrical systems, glial cells form a membraneous sheath surrounding axons called myelin, thereby insulating the axon. This myelination, as it is ...

“Understanding the structure of axons is important for understanding brain cell signaling,” says Shigeki Watanabe, Ph.D., ...

The Feltri lab research focused on adhesion between myelinating cells, axons and the extracellular matrix and the signals that promote ... and we are actively pursuing the molecular mechanisms by ...

Biology textbooks may need a revision, say Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists, who present new evidence that an armlike ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that axons, brain cell extensions, are tube-like, revealing instead a "pearl-on-a ...

A provocative study is claiming that biology textbooks are going to need some major revisions – although not everyone is ...

Based on the findings previously collected by Bellen and other researchers, Nave and his colleagues hypothesized that myelin, ...

Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived oligodendrocytes represent a viable means of studying oligodendrocyte ...

Tel Aviv University's study reveals critical insights into autism caused by SHANK3 mutations and demonstrates successful ...

Biology textbooks may need a revision, say scientists, who present new evidence that an arm-like structure of mammalian brain cells may be a different shape than scientists have assumed for more than ...