Confocal micrograph of a peripheral sensory neuron in culture. Marker stains and antibodies are used to identify neurons (red), c-Fos protein (green) and nuclei (blue). Note the nuclear ...

Assumptions that may seem self-evident are not always accurate when it comes to the evolution of vertebrate brains.

Its millions of nerve cells, each tailored with just one ... the genetic molecule RNA—that could explain how each sensory cell, or neuron, in mammalian noses becomes tailored to detect a ...

Memories are created in a matter of seconds. Researchers now may have begun to uncover how behavioral timescale learning ...

Scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have uncovered an ...

It has taken on the duties of processing sensory inputs and storing ... let’s examine the three major components of a neuron. The soma is the cell body and contains the nucleus and other ...

Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in temperature). Sensory neuron sends electrical impulses to a relay neuron, which is located in the spinal cord of the CNS. Relay neurons ...

It consists of nerves that carry information between the central nervous system and the extremities of the body ... pain-sensing neuron types, properties of sensory fibers, and potential ...