Scientists have identified no less than 16 distinct types of nerve cells in the human dorsal root ganglion (DRG), ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as ...

When a person thinks, speaks, eats, walks, or just sits comfortably with all bodily systems functioning normally, the billions of cells that ... hundreds of different types of neurons that have ...

“He had started working on his PhD thesis on a completely different topic,” Üçeyler said ... She also wondered if nerve fibers tunnel into other cell types found in skin tissue, such as immune cells, ...

The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.

Stem cells have the capacity to divide and differentiate into different types of specialized cells. The UPV/EHU research group has obtained cells very similar to neurons; they "manage to produce ...

Researchers have successfully developed nerve grafts, currently being trialed as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease, that ...

The cells with electrophysiological activity obtained at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) are opening up new avenues for the study of neurodegenerative diseases and the development of ...