A bundle of neurones is called a nerve. There are three main types of ... Receptors are groups of specialised cells. They detect a change in the environment (stimulus) and stimulate electrical ...

The tail enables the sperm to swim. The nerve cell is extended, so that nerves can run to and from different parts of the body to the central nervous system. The cell has extensions and branches ...

In order to reach their target, for instance a tumor, immune cells have to leave the bloodstream or lymphatic vessels and migrate through connective tissue. Until now, scientists presumed that ...

Montealegre‐Z., Fernando and Morris, Glenn K. 2004. The spiny devil katydids, Panacanthus Walker (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae): an evolutionary study of acoustic ...

How does nerve cell communication go awry in anxiety ... and the prefrontal cortex (PFC)—are all subject to lasting shifts in structure and function as a result of the disorder.

More information: Fuka Takeuchi et al, Relief of pain in mice by an antibody with high affinity for cell adhesion molecule 1 on nerves, Life Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2024.122997 ...

we need to understand how the tau protein jumps between cells and how it makes these nerve cells sick. Professor Mudher and her team will use fruit flies to try to answer these questions. Studying ...

Like all houseplants, nerve plants (Fittonia) need the right amount and frequency of water to truly thrive indoors. In this ...

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a progressive loss of nerve cells leading to a decline in memory and cognition. Now, a new study by a team of researchers at KU Leuven and VIB explored ...

According to a paper published Thursday in Cell ... simple nervous system also has no myelin. Ghosh compares this primordial nervous system to an orchestra waiting to begin playing. “All the musical ...

The disease is characterized by the buildup of amyloid-beta plaques and tau protein tangles in the brain, which disrupt cell communication and lead to the widespread death of nerve cells.

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by a progressive loss of nerve cells leading to a decline in memory and cognition. A team of researchers at KU Leuven and VIB explored the molecular sequence ...