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

Often brushed off as a harmless habit, chronic nail biting is a serious concern rooted in more than just nerves. Discover why ...

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA Department of Orthopedics ...

Think back to your elementary school days and your first science classes. Do you remember learning about the differences between amphibians and reptiles? If so, do you remember what separates these ...

It is suggested that virus is activated in situ as the result of local changes in tissue metabolism secondary to interference with the sensory innervation of latently infected tissues. From the ...

In this manuscript, Kaplan et al. study mesenchymal Meis2 in whisker formation and the links between whisker formation and sensory innervation. To this end, they used conditional deletion of Meis2 ...

Sensory nerves go the other direction. They carry signals from the outside toward the central nervous system. They always start in a sensory organ—eyes, ears, nose, tongue or skin. Each of those ...

This study provides valuable insight into the role of Meis2 in whisker hair follicle formation and confirms prior work that nerves are dispensable for this process. The solid imaging techniques ...

Neuronal pathways offer rapid and spatially precise communication, with sensory information reaching the brain via afferent nerves and motor commands being transmitted via efferent nerves. Conversely, ...

The brain itself is a not a muscle. It contains blood vessels and nerves, including neurons and glial cells. What is the gray matter and white matter? Gray and white matter are two different regions ...

and tongue. 1 Interneurons Interneurons, also known as relay neurons, connect multiple regions of the nervous system. Interneurons are the central nodes of neural circuits and allow for communication ...