The nerve cell uses a special means of transport for this purpose: the action potential which codes the information, thus enabling communication between the nerve cells. Calcium as the starting gun ...

But how do brain cells send messages? The first step in this messaging process is the action potential, or a wave of electricity triggered in the nerve cell, or neuron.The neurons found in the ...

Nerve cells flexibly adapt to acoustic signals, research has shown. Depending on the input signal, neurons generate action potentials either near or far away from the cell body. Nerve cells ensure ...

Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that carry messages between nerve cells (neurons) and other cells in the body, influencing everything from mood and breathing to heartbeat and concentration.

By pipetting nerve cells onto the film and allowing them to grow, they then respond to the electrical charge by generating electrical impulses of their own, known as action potentials, which allow ...

Nerve cells distinguish themselves from other cells in that they use this voltage difference to process and transmit messages. When a nerve cell receives an impulse, the voltage across the cell ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

A new understanding of how tumours exploit our nervous system is leading to new ways to treat cancer using familiar drugs ...

In the late 1940s, Sir Andrew Huxley and Sir Alan Hodgkin teased a nerve cell from an Atlantic squid, placed it into a seawater bath and zapped it with currents. Then, with the data, they built a ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

Early research has identified a new chemical that was able to stimulate nerve growth in lab-grown cells and help animals with damaged nerves regain muscle movement.