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Axon
Known as:
axone
, neuraxons
, neuraxon
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The long process of a neuron that conducts nerve impulses, usually away from the cell body to the terminals and varicosities, which are sites of…
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Axon Initial Segment
Axotomy
CNTNAP2 protein, human
Calnexin, human
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Narrower (9)
Axon collateral
Cytoplasm of axon
Growth Cones
Myelinated segment of axon
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Broader (5)
Nerve Fibers
Neurites
axon bundle
neuron component
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Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Absence of somatotopic projection of muscle afferents onto motoneurons of same muscle.
B. McKeon
,
S. Gandevia
,
David Burke
Journal of Neurophysiology
1984
Corpus ID: 20783574
During weak voluntary contractions, muscle afferents from a restricted region of the tibialis anterior of humans were activated…
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Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Interneurons between giant axons and motoneurons in crayfish escape circuitry.
A. P. Kramer
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F. Krasne
,
J. Wine
Journal of Neurophysiology
1981
Corpus ID: 38105858
1. Crayfish giant fibers are generally believed to generate tailflip movements by means of direct connections to two classes of…
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1976
1976
Peripheral Motor and Sensory Neuropathy of Early Childhood, Simulating Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease
H. Goebel
,
W. Zeman
,
W. Demyer
Neuropadiatrie
1976
Corpus ID: 26953593
Werdnig-Hoffmann Werdnig-Hoffmann Werdnig-Hoffmann
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Identification of the somata of common inhibitory motoneurons in the metathoracic ganglion of the cockroach.
K. Pearson
,
C. Fourtner
Canadian Journal of Zoology
1973
Corpus ID: 40843387
The somata of the three common inhibitory neurons known to innervate many muscles of the metathoracic legs of the cockroach have…
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1972
1972
The growth of the retina in Xenopus laevis: an autoradiographic study. II. Retinal growth in compound eyes.
J. Feldman
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R. M. Gaze
Journal of embryology and experimental morphology
1972
Corpus ID: 7196642
The retina of Xenopus laevis has previously been shown, using autoradiographic methods, to develop in the normal animal by the…
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1970
1970
Do the monoamines in crab pericardial organs play a role in peptide neurosecretion?
A. Berlind
,
I. M. Cooke
,
Martha W. Goldstone
Journal of Experimental Biology
1970
Corpus ID: 36578874
1. Pericardial organs of Libima emargmata and L. dubia were isolated, the nerves from the thoracic ganglion were stimulated…
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1966
1966
Functioning of the inhibitory conditioning axon innervating insect muscles.
Graham Hoyle
Journal of Experimental Biology
1966
Corpus ID: 8431763
1. An axon which, in addition to the single excitatory axon, innervates the anterior coxal adductor muscles of locusts and…
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1964
1964
ACUTE ASPHYXIATION OF THE SPINAL CORD AND OF OTHER SECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
A. Vanharreveld
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P. Biersteker
American Journal of Physiology
1964
Corpus ID: 38426145
Oxygen lack causes an impedance increase of the spinal cord coinciding in time with an asphyxial potential which can be led off…
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Highly Cited
1961
Highly Cited
1961
Accommodation in spinal motoneurons of the cat.
K. Sasaki
,
T. Otani
The Japanese Journal of Physiology
1961
Corpus ID: 31126409
1. Single spinal motoneurons of the cat were directly stimulated with linearly increasing currents flowing through an…
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1955
1955
Electric responses of individual nerve elements in cochlear nucleus to sound stimulation (guinea pig).
I. Tasaki
,
H. Davis
Journal of Neurophysiology
1955
Corpus ID: 1401583
IN A RECENT PAPER one of us (7) described the technique and the results of recording impulses from individual auditory nerve…
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