Specialised cell type Animal or plant cell ... filaments that can slide past each other to shorten the cell Neuron (nerve cell) Animal Transmits electrical impulses from one part of body to ...

Scientists have developed a new kind of laser-based artificial neuron that mimics a biological nerve cell. This artificial ...

Studying disease processes in animal models is an ... Lettman et al, Cell type–specific gene therapy confers protection ...

A neuron or nerve cell is the brain's fundamental building block for the transmission of information. The cell body (or soma) is a neuron’s center, from which different types of extensions ...

1 Motor Neurons A motor neuron’s cell body is also often located either in the spinal cord or the brainstem with projections that interact with organs such as muscles and glands. Upper motor neurons ...

Touch receptors are a subtype of sensory neuron that are ... of mechanosensory neural cell types in a sea anemone and reveal that evolutionary histories of animal mechanosensory neurons are ...

There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again. For example, noradrenaline.