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Axon

Known as: axone, neuraxons, neuraxon 
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 SegmentAxotomyCNTNAP2 protein, humanCalnexin, human

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Axon collateralCytoplasm of axonGrowth ConesMyelinated segment of axon

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Nerve FibersNeuritesaxon bundleneuron component

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Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Absence of somatotopic projection of muscle afferents onto motoneurons of same muscle.
During weak voluntary contractions, muscle afferents from a restricted region of the tibialis anterior of humans were activated… 
1982
1982
Chemoreception and mechanoreception in the gastropod molluscPleurobranchaea californica
Summary1.Sensory reception in the molluscPleurobranchaea californica was studied in whole animals and surgically reduced… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Interneurons between giant axons and motoneurons in crayfish escape circuitry.
1. Crayfish giant fibers are generally believed to generate tailflip movements by means of direct connections to two classes of… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Identification of the somata of common inhibitory motoneurons in the metathoracic ganglion of the cockroach.
The somata of the three common inhibitory neurons known to innervate many muscles of the metathoracic legs of the cockroach have… 
1972
1972
Macromolecules from lobster axon membranes that bind cholinergic ligands and local anesthetics (recpetors-procaine-acetylcholine-nicotine-Na + and K + gates).
The technique of reversible equilibrium dialysis has been applied to the study of macromolecules that are essential for axonal… 
1970
1970
Do the monoamines in crab pericardial organs play a role in peptide neurosecretion?
1. Pericardial organs of Libima emargmata and L. dubia were isolated, the nerves from the thoracic ganglion were stimulated… 
1966
1966
Functioning of the inhibitory conditioning axon innervating insect muscles.
1. An axon which, in addition to the single excitatory axon, innervates the anterior coxal adductor muscles of locusts and… 
1964
1964
ACUTE ASPHYXIATION OF THE SPINAL CORD AND OF OTHER SECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Oxygen lack causes an impedance increase of the spinal cord coinciding in time with an asphyxial potential which can be led off… 
Highly Cited
1961
Highly Cited
1961
Accommodation in spinal motoneurons of the cat.
1. Single spinal motoneurons of the cat were directly stimulated with linearly increasing currents flowing through an… 
1955
1955
Electric responses of individual nerve elements in cochlear nucleus to sound stimulation (guinea pig).
IN A RECENT PAPER one of us (7) described the technique and the results of recording impulses from individual auditory nerve…