We have analyzed the dynamics of neuronal intermediate filaments in living neurons by using the method of photobleaching of fluorescently-labeled neurofilament L protein and immunoelectron microscopy ...

Neurofilament light (NfL) is a 68 kDa cytoskeletal intermediate filament protein highly expressed in neuronal axons. It is associated with the 125 kDa Neurofilament medium (NfM) and the 200 kDa ...

Axons are the longest cellular projections of neurons relaying electrical and biochemical signals in nerves and white-matter tracts of the nervous system. As such, they are critical for neuronal ...

Dynein is composed of two heavy chains (blue), two intermediate chains (yellow), four light intermediate chains (green) and several light chains, including DYNLRB1 (orange). The Molecular Neuroscience ...

Perhaps the most obvious feature of a neuron is the long branch called an axon that ventures far from the cell body to connect with other neurons or muscles. If that long, thin projection ever seems ...

Researchers have solved an important puzzle in neurobiology: the wiring and the movement of nerve cells are interwoven, but separately controlled. The study focuses on neuronal growth and migration: ...

Much like tree branches, hundreds of axons extend from neurons during development. These axons serve as information highways that enable neurons to communicate with different cells across the body.

The astrocytic glial cell has the unique ability to form scar tissue around damaged neurons. The presence of scar tissue is associated with inhibitory effects on the regrowth of mature neurons that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To screen invertebrate tissues for the possible expression of intermediate filaments (IFs), immunofluorescence microscopy with the monoclonal ...