Many sensory nerve endings in the skin associate ... Neuregulin 1 (NRG1) seems to have exceptionally numerous and varied functions in Schwann cell biology. It is involved in neural crest migration ...

The postulated mechanisms of injury include direct needle trauma, secondary constriction by scar, and direct nerve fiber damage, due to both axon and Schwann cell, with a breakdown in the blood ...

Schwann cells wrap around nerve cells to protect ... that both unilateral and bilateral tumors occur from the loss of function of genes on chromosome 22. This gene controls the growth of Schwann ...

Schwann cells, through peripheral nerve damage, secrete nerve growth factor (NGF), which ... leading to inhibition of glutamate transporter function and amplification of nociceptive signaling.

2022) that may be beneficial in the repair of severe nerve damage where regeneration timeframes are extended. We first investigated nanofibre morphology and Schwann cell guidance capacity in the ...

A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information ...

For example, heat and gentle touch were transmitted by entirely different types of cells. When the stimulus was more intense, the nerve cells began to overlap in their roles for transmitting the ...

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.

It's no coincidence that our bodies feel a little creakier as we age. The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too, and some change in ways that weaken the very structure of our bones.

We know each of the proteins that exist in our cells, but how they fit together to then carry out the function of a cell still remains largely unknown across cell types," said Leah Schaffer ...