Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that nerve-cell dendrites have the capacity to splice messenger RNA, a process once believed to only take place in ...

Further, DHA is a major constituent of nerve cell membranes and, in that role, facilitates all cell functions. As if that’s not enough, DHA also protects brain tissue from oxidative injury.

The nerve circuitry for this process is so specialized that the many branches extending from a single nerve cell, called dendrites, receive a specific sound frequency from one or the other ear.

Neurons, also called nerve cells, are composed of three main parts: the cell body, the dendrites and the axon -- a long, thin extension that is responsible for communicating with other cells.

Nerve cells (neurons) are among the most complex cell types in our body. They achieve this complexity during development by extending ramified branches called dendrites and axons and establishing ...

Published in Nature Communications, the study describes how two key proteins allow glial cells to actively monitor the hair-like cilia that extend out of nematode dendrites, so that the glial ...

Nerve fibre loss and an increase in key immune (dendritic) cells on the surface of the eye (cornea) may be an identifying feature of 'long COVID', suggests a small study published in the British ...

Groups of living human nerve cells have become integrated into the brains of laboratory rats, ... let's say faulty dendrites or fewer synapses - will that result in changes in the circuitry?

Melanocytes cultured in growth media that had been conditioned with sensory neurons showed increased survival, as well as longer dendrites (branch-like extensions of the cell); these effects were ...

Location, location, location is the key for psychedelic drugs that could treat mental illness by rapidly rebuilding connections between nerve cells. In a paper published Feb. 17 in Science, ...

Published in Nature Communications, the study describes how two key proteins allow glial cells to actively monitor the hair-like cilia that extend out of nematode dendrites, so that the glial ...