0 a long, thread-like structure attached to a nerve cell that sends out signals away from the nerve cell
1 a long thread that comes out of a nerve cell and carries signals from it
As the stimulus became larger, more long-range axons were recruited into the collective oscillation, thereby increasing the gain of the feedback circuit.
From the peripheral retina, where there is little fasciculation, axons converge on the optic disc.
Although far less frequent, some axons were seen to be ensheathed by an oligodendrocytic process; such axons were counted as 'myelinated'.
Myelinated axons are organized into a series of polarized domains that are crucial for normal saltatory conduction.
Regressive events such as cell death and the elimination of long axon collaterals and dendritic processes are essential mechanisms of brain maturation.
Each pattern is broadcast through the brain by divergent-convergent axon projections.
When conventional symmetrical biphasic pulses were used, there was little selectivity between activation of local cells and activation of axons of passage.
As a result, the nodal length in larger axons (>1 mm) is significantly reduced in transgenic mice compared with their wild-type littermates.
