However, nearly all neurons have three essential parts: a cell body, an axon, and dendrites. Cell body. Also known as a soma, the cell body is the core section of the neuron.

(Medical Xpress)—The well-behaved neuron receives signals through its many dendrites to generate spikes on a single axon. The electrical energy of these signals is generally believed to be ...

These axon terminals are often located close to the dendrites of another neuron, forming a connection known as a synapse — despite the fact that the axon terminals do not physically touch the ...

What am I looking at? Here we see four individual dendrites with dendritic spines (1) extending from the main dendrite (2). The dendrites were colored to distinguish them from each other.. Biology in ...

While the neural architecture responsible for the transmission of electrical impulses has been known for more than a century, the basic biology behind how a neuron acquires its one and only axon ...

Ramón y Cajal observed that a single, long axon running from one neuron tended to end in a field of dendrites--other, short tubes attached to another neuron. He maintained, however, that the ...

The repaired neuron had one axon and several dendrites with opposite microtubule orientation. Stone and colleagues said that they believe that exploring microtubule control is critical to ...

This is contrary to typical neuronal communication where an axon of one neuron is in contact with another neuron's dendrite or cell body, not its axon.

As it loses input connections, the wounded neuron also becomes more excitable: the neuron becomes more likely to fire signals down its truncated axon when stimulated to do so by other neurons ...

The axon and dendrites are usually connected by the neuron's cell body. Rather than conduct signals via the neuron’s center, these unusual nerve cells take a shortcut to transmit information ...