Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.

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Our results indicate that aberrant midline crossing by motor neuron cell bodies and axons in mice lacking Robo1 and Robo2 are not interdependent and that DCC contributes to axon, but not cell body ...

A complete neuron inventory, paired with an integrated toolkit for manipulating and measuring individual cell types across the entire visual system, would allow deeper investigations into how circuit ...

A complete neuron inventory ... would allow deeper investigations into how circuit structure supports sensory processing. A dataset capturing morphology, synaptic connectivity, neurotransmitters ...

and the size of primary sensory neuron somas. Larger-bodied species with larger primary sensory neurons exhibited a higher abundance of microglia, while smaller animals tended to have fewer or none.

Is neuron regeneration in the adult brain possible? It was long believed that the adult brain could not generate new neurons. However, it is now understood that niches in the brain contain ...