News tagged with nerve

Related topics: brain · spinal cord · nerve cells · blood vessels · pain

New role for motor neurons discovered

A new study presented in the journal Nature could change the view of the role of motor neurons. Motor neurons, which extend from the spinal cord to muscles and other organs, have always been considered passive recipients ...

Jan 13, 2016
289 0

Superactivation at synapses?

Nerve cells have to react extremely quickly, but depending on the task they are supposed to perform they often need to work more slowly. Berlin scientists have now shown that a receptor in the synapse can adapt to follow ...

Jan 13, 2016
1 0

Nerve

A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of peripheral axons (the long, slender projections of neurons). A nerve provides a common pathway for the electrochemical nerve impulses that are transmitted along each of the axons. Nerves are found only in the peripheral nervous system. In the central nervous system, the analogous structures are known as tracts. Neurons are sometimes called nerve cells, though this term is technically inaccurate since many neurons do not form nerves, and nerves also include non-neuronal Schwann cells that coat the axons in myelin.

This text uses material from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA

Subscribe to rss feed
{"cc_re__cc_re__cc_by_sa_3_0": ["stem, the analogous structures are known as tracts.  Neurons are sometimes called <i>nerve cells</i>, though this term is technically inaccurate since many neurons do not form nerves, and nerves also include non-neuronal Schwann cells that coat the axons in myelin.</p>\n                        </div>\t\n                        <p><small>\n                                This text uses material from <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/Nerve\">Wikipedia</a>,\n                                licensed under <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\">CC BY-SA</a>\n                        </small></p>\n                    </div>\n                                <p class=\"rss-box\">\n                    Subscribe to <a href=\"http://medicalxpress.com/rss-feed/tags/nerve/\">rss feed</a>\n                </p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n   <div id=\"side-ad\">\n      <script async src=\"//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js\"></script>\n      <!-- Medx - Page tags - Responsive -->\n      <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n\t   style=\"display:block\"\n\t   data-ad-client=\"ca-pu"], "copyright__copyright__copyright": ["ctrochemical nerve impulses that are transmitted along each of the axons. Nerves are found only in the peripheral nervous system. In the central nervous system, the analogous structures are known as tracts. Neurons are sometimes called nerve cells, though this term is technically inaccurate since many neurons do not form nerves, and nerves also include non-neuronal Schwann cells that coat the axons in myelin.\n\nThis text uses material from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA\n\nSubscribe to rss feed"]}