News tagged with nerve axons
Rewrite the textbooks: Findings challenge conventional wisdom of how neurons operate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neurons are complicated, but the basic functional concept is that synapses transmit electrical signals to the dendrites and cell body (input), and axons carry signals away (output). In one ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 17, 2011 |
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How injured nerves grow themselves back
Unlike nerves of the spinal cord, the peripheral nerves that connect our limbs and organs to the central nervous system have an astonishing ability to regenerate themselves after injury. Now, a new report in the October 1st ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 27, 2010 |
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A whole new meaning for thinking on your feet
Smithsonian researchers report that the brains of tiny spiders are so large that they fill their body cavities and overflow into their legs. As part of ongoing research to understand how miniaturization affects ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Microchip technology rapidly identifies compounds for regrowing nerves in live animals
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long sought the ability to regenerate nerve cells, or neurons, which could offer a new way to treat spinal-cord damage as well as neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 11, 2010 |
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Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited
They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Neurons found to be similar to Electoral College
A tiny neuron is a very complicated structure. Its complex network of dendrites, axons and synapses is constantly dealing with information, deciding whether or not to send a nerve impulse, to drive a certain action.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Blocking protein may help ease painful nerve condition
Scientists have identified the first gene that pulls the plug on ailing nerve cell branches from within the nerve cell, possibly helping to trigger the painful condition known as neuropathy.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 15, 2009 |
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Rethinking Alzheimer's disease and its treatment targets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychiatry professor George Bartzokis introduces a new theory about the fundamental cause of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Lab-grown nerves promote nerve regeneration after injury
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have engineered transplantable living nerve tissue that encourages and guides regeneration in an animal model. Results were published this month in Tissue En ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Mild traumatic brain injury, not so mild after all
Douglas Smith, MD, director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair and professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, will present information on the molecular mechanism at play in mild ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 19, 2010 |
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Improving recovery from spinal cord injury
Once damaged, nerves in the spinal cord normally cannot grow back and the only drug approved for treating these injuries does not enable nerve regrowth. Publishing online this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Newly Discovered Gene Mutation Linked to Nerve Diseases
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified mutations in the gene for TRPV4 that cause two related degenerative motor nerve disorders, scapuloperoneal spinal muscular ...
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Scientists find survival factor for keeping nerve cells healthy
Scientists at the Babraham Institute have discovered a novel survival factor whose rapid transport along nerve cells is crucial for keeping them alive. The same factor seems likely to be needed to keep our nerves healthy ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Defective protein is a double hit for ataxia
The neurodegenerative disease spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 (SCA5) damages nerve cells in two ways. University of Minnesota researchers now report that the defective protein responsible for the disease cuts ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 05, 2010 |
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Membrane molecule keeps nerve impulses hopping
New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine describes a key molecular mechanism in nerve fibers that ensures the rapid conductance of nervous system impulses. The findings ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 26, 2011 |
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