A new technique offers potential to reconnect neurons of people with central nervous system ... microscope to attach a very small polystyrene ball (a few micrometers in size) to a portion of a ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered the exact mechanism the killer rabies virus uses to efficiently enter the central ... enters a neuron in the peripheral nervous system by binding ...

Systemic and intracerebrospinal fluid delivery of adeno-associated virus serotype 9 (AAV9) has been shown to achieve widespread gene delivery to the central nervous system (CNS). However ...

The nervous system is a complex network of nerves ... which is darker in color and surrounds white matter, consists of neuron somas, and round central cell bodies. Conversely, white matter ...

Axons, which carry signals away from the neuron’s cell body, are coated in a sheaf of myelin. Myelin sheaves are produced in the central nervous system by cells called oligodendrocytes ...

In the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system, or CNS), the debris of dead neurons is primarily cleared by microglia — specialized immune cells that reside only in the CNS.

Each neuron is connected to another 1,000 neurons ... Efferent neurons — these take messages from the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and deliver them to cells in other parts ...

In 1890, psychologist William James argued that in each of us “[t]here is… one central or pontifical ... suggesting rather that the nervous system is “a million-fold democracy whose each ...

Microglia, also known as macrophages of the central ... and neuron size regulatory functions of PNS microglia,” said Dr. WU Zhisheng, first author of the study. Reference: Wu Z, Wang Y, Chen W wei, et ...

They then send signals along a sensory neuron to your ... the function of your nervous system. If the reaction is exaggerated or absent, it may indicate a damage to the central nervous system.

Li Hanjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the presence of microglia in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and identified ...