The result was a surprise: When PrP was present only in axons, the fibers that conduct electrical impulses, it prevented disease.
J. Murdoch Ritchie, a biophysicist at Yale who used a potent neurotoxin derived from shellfish to help trace the way nerve cells conduct electrical impulses and famously asked the Central Intelligence Agency to share its supply of the poison with scientists, died on July 9 in Hamden, Conn.
Her latest orchestral essay, Axon, was further evidence of a composer who prefers to think in terms of synapses rather than sonata form, as it was named after the nerve fibres that conduct electrical impulses.
This process involves adding myelin around the axons, which conduct electrical impulses.
Furthermore, glial cells do not conduct nerve impulses, and are thus not essential for processing information.
The clumps cause the shaking and abnormal gait, because they make cerebellar cells unable to properly conduct nervous impulses.
These neuron processors are wrapped in its data memory devices — synapses — so that the brain's paths of communication are extremely efficient and diverse, through the neuron's axons, which conduct electrical impulses.
The aim is for the cells to morph into heart tissue with the ability to conduct electrical impulses to restore a more normal heartbeat.
Alcohol, it seems probable to many investigators, inhibits the capacity of neurons to receive and conduct these impulses across the intervening synapses.
The traditional view of dendritic function presumes that only axons conduct nerve impulses and only dendrites receive them, but dendrites can form synapses with dendrites and axons and even somata can receive impulses.
