Neurons, also known as nerve cells, send and receive signals from your brain. While neurons have a lot in common with other types of cells, they’re structurally and functionally unique. Neurons ...

This diagram shows every nerve cell (multicolor) in a larval fruit fly brain, with the spheres representing the cell body and the elongated tails as branches that send and receive information.

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

Two Nerve Cells In Direct Contact Date: November 9, 2006 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Summary: For the first time, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Martinsried near ...

How nerve cells grow: Researcher decodes molecular process that controls growth of nerve cells. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 02 ...

Motor neurons are nerve cells that control our muscles by sending signals from the brain and spinal cord out to the body. In diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), these cells are ...

First, new nerve cells form on the underside of the developing cerebral cortex, where they take on a streamlined – or bipolar – structure, migrate outwards perpendicular to the surface and finally ...

The disruption of axons—the thread-like part of nerve cells that transmits electrical signals—is associated with Alzheimer's disease. One way axonal function may be hindered is through damage to the ...

In a global first, Dr. Kremkow's team was able to simultaneously capture the activity of nerve cells in the retina and their synaptically connected target neurons in the midbrain. Related Stories ...

But how do brain cells send messages? The first step in this messaging process is the action potential, or a wave of electricity triggered in the nerve cell, or neuron.The neurons found in the ...

THE Spanish histologist, Dr. S. R. Cajal, on p. 9 of his book “Les nouvelles idées sur la structure du Système nerveux,” translated into French by Dr. L. Azoulay, makes the following ...