The axon, also called the nerve fiber, is the part of the nerve cell (neuron) which transmits nervous impulses. The axon leaves the nerve cell body (or soma) at an area called the axon hillock. Little offshoots from the axon are called axon...

Nerve fibers (axons) are often covered by a special insulating layer called the myelin sheath. This covering is composed of the membranes of specialized cells called oligodendrocytes (in the brain and spinal cord, or central nervous system) and Schwann...

These are FIBRES involved in the sensation of PAIN. A-delta (δ) fibres are small myelinated (see MYELIN) fibres; A-alpha (α) and A-beta (β) fibres are larger than delta and are also myelinated. The delta fibres, like the unmyelinated C...

The axon is the process of a NEURON whose function is to conduct action potentials. Unlike a DENDRITE, a neuron usually has only one axon. Axons can be myelinated (see MYELIN) or unmyelinated, and myelinated axons can conduct action potentials faster...

An axon or nerve fiber, is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body or...

Slow axonal transport is essential to axonal growth and survival. In our previous work we demonstrated that many macromolecules, including fluorescently labeled tubulin, move slowly down the squid giant axon (1, 2). We (1, 2) and others (3) have proposed that the slow...

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Triad Hospitals Inc. said Monday it agreed to be taken private in a $4.7 billion sale to an affiliate of Goldman Sachs and a JPMorgan Chase & Co. spinoff.The hospital industry is struggling with flat volume and rising numbers of unpaid bills from uninsured patients....