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.

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 ...

A major model system for studying axon-dendrite specification, cultured hippocampal pyramidal neurons, was pioneered by Gary Banker more than 20 years ago 2.The neurites are similar to each other ...

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 ...

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 ...

New putative GABAergic synapses were formed exclusively by new boutons appearing at pre-existing axon-dendrite crossings without the involvement of any dendritic or axonal protrusions.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Among all the bad things that can happen to the brain when it is severely jolted - in a car accident, for example - one of the most common and worrisome is axon damage. Axons are the long stalks ...