Rather than mere quirk or curiousity the axon carrying dendrite, or AcD as the authors call it, is found on most neurons—at least among pyramidal cells in the CA1 area of the mouse hippocampus.

Axon and dendrite lengths, and branch tip numbers were measured manually using an ImageJ plugin, NeuronJ 1.1.0 (ref. 51) by an observer blinded to the identity of the samples.

Neurons can also be categorized by their basic structure. Unipolar neurons have one nerve process that acts as both an axon and a dendrite whereas bipolar neurons have both a single axon and a single ...

Neurons are complicated, but the basic functional concept is that synapses transmit electrical signals to the dendrites and cell body, and axons carry signals away. In one of many surprise ...

On one end, the soma sprouts branch-like dendrites for receiving signals, while a long –- up to a meter long –- axon stretches away in the other direction, branching out into multiple axon ...

Action potentials in the axon and related but different types of electrical impulses in the dendrites are the physical carries of the information coursing through the neuron that then gets passed ...

Neurons are complicated, but the basic functional concept is that synapses transmit electrical signals to the dendrites and cell body, and axons carry signals away. In one of many surprise ...

Then have them tape their models to a piece of paper and label the cell body, nucleus, dendrites, axon, axon terminals, and myelin sheath. Model a neural pathway . Review with students how nerve ...

Scientists believed the main way neurons communicated with each other was using its cable (axon) to send neurotransmitters (chemical messengers) to the dendrite of another neuron.

Rather than just sending messages from the axon of one neuron to the dendrite of another neuron — which is the typical model of neuronal activity — nearly half the fly's neuronal connectivity involved ...

As a primer, a neuron comes down to two parts: axon and dendrite. A textbook synaptic connection flows from axon to dendrite, but these researchers saw synapses that went against the grain.