Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Nerve cells, or neurons, are the basic functional units of the nervous system. Multiple interconnected neurons form a neural circuit and ...

(A) Illustration of myelinated nerve fiber and saltatory conduction of action potential. An example of ... dorsal root ganglion neurons and Schwann cells. Myelin segments are stained in red ...

A person with neuroblastoma, which occurs when developing nerve cells in children turn cancerous, has remained tumour-free ...

Using human pluripotent stem cells, Dr. Navara’s research group makes human nerve cells from Parkinson’s patients ... They also have spontaneous and induced action potentials and they release ...

The sciatic nerve is stimulated at the ankle (upper trace) and at the knee (lower trace). Compound muscle action potentials are recorded from plantar muscle. Typical nerve conduction abnormalities ...