Axon
... An axon , or "
nerve fiber ," is a long slender projection of a
nerve cell, or " neuron ," which conducts electrical ... body, for example, are those of the sciatic
nerve , which run from the base of the spine to the ...
Brain
... and cephalopods arise from twin parallel
nerve cords that extend through the body of the animal. ... from the anterior section of a single dorsal
nerve cord , which later becomes the spinal cord . In ... and on physical needs. A similarly extensive
nerve network delivers signals from a brain to control ...
Ion channel
...
Because "voltage-gated" channels underlie the
nerve impulse and because "transmitter-gated" channels ... sodium and potassium voltage-gated channels of
nerve and muscle, and the voltage-gated calcium ... the voltage-gated channels that underlie the
nerve impulse, consists of four subunits with six ...
Long-term potentiation
... potentiation ) of the connection between two
nerve cells which lasts for an extended period of time ... sequence of short, high-frequency stimulations to
nerve cell synapses . The phenomenon was discovered in ... memories were generally not the product of new
nerve cell growth. Scientists generally believed that ...
Nervous system
... by two primary mechanisms:
Within neuronal
nerve fibers by way of action potentials
Between ... nerves (which are actually axonal processes of
nerve cells) are considered to be PNS. The peripheral ... , such as sea anemones and jellyfish , have a
nerve net , in which the activation of any one neuron ...
Neuron
... Neurons (also spelled neurones or called
nerve cells ) are the primary cells of the nervous ... in length. This is the structure which carries
nerve signals away from the neuron. Each neuron has ...
Histology and internal structure
nerve cell bodies stained with basophilic dyes will ...
Synapse
... Synapses allow
nerve cells to communicate with one another through ... from the
post-synaptic cell. The pre-synaptic
nerve terminal generally buds from the tip of an axon ... neurotransmitter is triggered by the arrival of a
nerve impulse (or action potential ) and occurs ...
Biophysics
...
Hermann von Helmholtz , first to measure the velocity of
nerve impulses
Alan Hodgkin & Andrew Huxley , created modern understanding of
nerve impulses
Georg von Bksy , research on the human ear
Bernard Katz ...
Eye
... where the light is detected and transmitted to the brain via the optic
nerve . The eye is typically roughly spherical, filled with a transparent ...
Fovea
Iris
Lens
Macula
Optic disc
Optic
nerve
Ora serrata
Posterior chamber
Pupil
Rectus medialis
...
Neurotransmitter
... post-synaptic potentials. That is, they may help the initiation of a
nerve impulse in the receiving neuron, or they may discourage such an impulse, ... others are only used in certain brain regions by particular classes of
nerve cells. Serotonin is generally used as a neurotransmitter in cells ...
Olfaction
... , each receptor detects a feature of the odor molecule . Odor receptor
nerve cells function like a key lock sytem. If the odor molecules can fit into the lock the
nerve cell will fire.
However, according to Vibration theory , recently ...
Signal transduction
... Several "signaling molecules", such as the neurotransmitters that allow
nerve cells to communicate across synapses , bind to receptor proteins in ... among them muscle contraction, release of neurotransmitter from
nerve endings, vision in retina cells, proliferation , secretion , ...
Anatomy
...
Other anatomic terms (not classified):
Artery
Coelom
Diaphragm
Gastrointestinal tract
Hair
Exoskeleton
Lip
nerve
Peritoneum
Serous membrane
Skeleton
Skull
Spinal cord
Vein
See also
List of anatomical topics
List of human ...
Animal
... deuterostomes it forms through evagination of the endoderm, called enterocoelic pouching. Deuterostomes also have a dorsal, rather than a ventral,
nerve chord and their embryos undergo different cleavage.
All this suggests the deuterostomes and protostomes are separate, monophyletic lineages. The ...
Andrew Huxley
... physiologist and biophysicist , who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of
nerve " action potentials ," the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system . Hodgkin and ...
Cilium
... from bacterial flagella.
Cilia are found in all animals, although nematodes and arthropods only have non-motile cilia on some sensory
nerve cells. Cilia are rare in plants occurring most notably in cycads . Protozoans ( ciliates ) possess motile cilia exclusively and use them for ...
Dendrite
... For the crystal, see Dendrite (crystal) .
In biology , a dendrite is a slender, typically branched projection of a
nerve cell, or " neuron ," which conducts the electrical stimulation received from other cells to the body or soma of the cell from which it projects. ...
Diabetes mellitus
... cardiovascular disease (doubled risk), chronic renal failure (it is the main cause for dialysis ), retinal damage with eventual blindness ,
nerve damage and eventual gangrene with risk of amputation of toes, feet, and even legs.
The most important forms of diabetes are due to decreased ...
Down syndrome
... cortex and the subiculum , both critical for memory consolidation , are among the first affected by the damage. A gradual decrease in the number of
nerve cells throughout the cortex follows. A few years ago, Johns Hopkins scientists created a genetically engineered mouse called Ts65Dn (segmental ...
Intermediate filament
... .
Peripherin found in peripheral neurons.
GFAP (glial fibrillary acidic protein) in glial cells .
Neurofilaments
These are found in
nerve cells and are implicated in the radial growth of the axon .
α-Internexin
Neurofilament-L (NF-L)
Neurofilament-M (NF-M)
...
Insulin
... include cerebrovascular accidents (CVA or stroke), heart attack, blindness (from proliferative diabetic retinopathy ), toehr vascular damage,
nerve damage from diabetic neuropathy , or kidney failure from diabetic nephropathy . These studies have demonstrated beyond doubt that, if it is ...
Interphase
... given time, even in an area of rapid cell division such as the tip of a plant root , 90 per cent of cells are in interphase. Some cells, such as
nerve cells, can stay in interphase for decades. The cell grows and replicates its DNA and centrioles. There are 3 parts of interphase: G 1 (growth 1 ...
Louis Pasteur
... Jenner's discovery. Pasteur produced the first vaccine for rabies by growing the virus in rabbits and then weakening it by drying the affected
nerve tissue. This vaccine was first used on 9-year old Joseph Meister on July 6 , 1885 after the boy was badly mauled by a rabid dog. This was done ...
Animal
... deuterostomes it forms through evagination of the endoderm, called enterocoelic pouching. Deuterostomes also have a dorsal, rather than a ventral,
nerve chord and their embryos undergo different cleavage.
All this suggests the deuterostomes and protostomes are separate, monophyletic lineages. The ...
Muscle
... muscles, muscles of the face and internal muscles all correspond with dedicated regions in the brain.
In addition, muscles react to reflexive
nerve stimuli that do not always send signals all the way to the brain, but most muscle activity is the result of complex interactions between various ...
Proprioception
... from sensory neurons located in the inner ear (motion and orientation) and in the joints and muscles (stance). There are specific
nerve receptors for this form of perception, just like there are specific receptors for pressure, light/dark, temperature, sound, and other sensory ...
Receptor
... , a receiver .
In physiology , a sensory receptor is any structure which, on receiving environmental stimuli, produces an informative
nerve impulse .
In biochemistry , a receptor is a protein molecule that receives and responds to a specific neurotransmitter , hormone , or other ...
Stem cell
... of stem cells that can transform into several different forms. Bone marrow stromal stem cells are known to be able to transform into liver ,
nerve , muscle , hair follicle and kidney cells.
Adult stem cells may be even more versatile than this. Researchers at the New York University ...