Specialised cell type Animal or plant cell ... filaments that can slide past each other to shorten the cell Neuron (nerve cell) Animal Transmits electrical impulses from one part of body to ...

Among the questions on her list: How do organelles migrate within a neuron to propagate a synapse ... Svoboda is interested in how these cells “talk to each other” to form highly complex neural ...

Cells in the spinal cords of children ... "For the first time in an animal model of a human motor neuron disease, there was functional restoration opening up new possibilities for therapeutic ...

There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again. For example, noradrenaline.

Although neurons are considered the basic units of the brain and nervous system, they do not do all the work. Glia are a non-neuronal category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but ...

Studying disease processes in animal models is an ... Lettman et al, Cell type–specific gene therapy confers protection ...

Monepantel is under clinical development by Neurizon Therapeutics and currently in Phase II for Motor Neuron Diseases.