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In 1995, a study led by neurologist and neuroscientist Gottfried Schlaug found that professional musicians who started playing before the age of 7 have an unusually thick corpus callosum, the bundle of axons that serves as an information superhighway between the left and right sides of the brain.

A nerve is a bundle of axons that are grouped into fascicles.

Transgenic expression of YFP in a bundle of axons that innervate neuromuscular junctions in an adult mouse.

The amount of white matter — the bundles of axons that connect different parts of the brain — did not differ, nor did the overall surface area of the brain cortex.

In normal controls, bundles of axons that started from the right side of corpus callosum were labelled with dextran red and crossed over to the left hemisphere.

In recent experiments on rats, Schwartz's group tested the therapeutic powers of macrophages on severed optic nerves, the thick bundles of axons that transmit information between the eye's retina and the brain.

Indeed, using a series of rescue experiments, we determined that the expression of EN and GsbN in NB 6-4 is crucial to trigger growth and crossing of the midline of axons that form the PC bundles.

In Drosophila, glial cells are also involved in the defasciculation of bundled group of axons by migrating and physically separating different tracts of axons that project to different targets (Klämbt et al., 1991).

These bundles include thalamocortical axons that normally establish connections with retrosplenial and visual cortex, sites of early postnatal NT-3 expression.

Missing from the present analysis is consideration of that other minicolumnar arrangement of cortical axons because it is only present in primates: The repeated bundles of axon collaterals that descend from the inhibitory double bouquet cells of layer II and upper layer III down to the deepest layers, synapsing with the side branches of apical dendrites of pyramidal cells as they do so.

Instead, we detected novel axonal misguidance phenotypes with the overexpression of this allele, including aberrant bifurcations of axonal bundle termini, "tangles" of axons failing to extend medially, and misguided projections of single axons that appear to form loops (Fig 6C).