Researchers have achieved patch-clamp studies of an elusive part of mammalian myelinated nerves called the Nodes of Ranvier. At the nodes, they found unexpected potassium channels that give the ...

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4C (CMT4C) is an early-onset, autosomal recessive form of demyelinating neuropathy. The clinical manifestations include progressive scoliosis, delayed age of walking, ...

The assembly of neuronal specializations is sometimes reminiscent of building structures with Lego blocks: some pieces can attach only to specific partners, and there are blocks that you cannot ...

A team has shown that the axons of auditory neurons in the brainstem which respond to low and high-frequency sounds differ in their morphology, and that these variations correlate with differences in ...

The discovery in electron micrographs of a synaptic bouton arising directly from a node of Ranvier in the motor horn of the monkey spinal cord, and of a node covered by extensions of two outer ...