“Understanding the structure of axons is important for understanding brain cell signaling,” Shigeki Watanabe at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who led the study, said in a press ...

A controversial study, led by Jacqueline Griswold from Johns Hopkins University in the US, has some scientists arguing for a fundamental change in how we view neurons – the building blocks of the ...

Axons may have a "beaded" structure, known as nanoscopic varicosities New high-pressure freezing method revealed these unique patterns Future studies aim to explore their connection to brain health ...

For more than a century, axons — the slender arms of brain cells — have been depicted as uniform tubes. These structures are responsible for transmitting information across neurons.

The Axon leader shared his past failures in taking charge of his vision: A mini-city in North Scottsdale, where a spaceship-inspired new Axon “world headquarters” is to be surrounded by apartment ...

Despite what most diagrams show, axons – the main arms of neurons – are not a smooth cylinder, they say, but more like a string of pearls. The size and spacing of those nanoscopic bumps are ...

Furthermore, the mice showed neurofilament aggregates in the spinal cord and cerebellum as well as reduced size and amount of neurofilaments in myelinated axons (Adebola et al., 2015; Lancaster et al.

"It will be interesting in the future to look at the mutations that lead to neurodegeneration, what axon morphology looks like in those neurons, and whether axon plasticity is still present," he said.

But neurons are not alone in the brain or elsewhere in the nervous system: Brain cells called glia play various supporting roles to keep the system running smoothly. Between the axon of a ...