A tickly itch, a painful scratch, or the feeling of a refreshing breeze—the skin is teaming with nerve endings that drive these sensations. Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how ...

The fiber structure of pigeons and various mammals in comparison. The 3D-PLI method shows the directions of the nerve fibers color-coded. The depictions seen here do not reflect the true sizes - a ...

Initial studies of brain slices from different species using the Scattering Polarimeter have already shown results comparable in quality to the individual measurements of 3D-PLI and ComSLI, and can be ...

This balance in YME1L activity is required to maintain the stemness properties of neural stem cells, as impairments in YME1L function force cells to exit their status of stem cells and prematurely ...

A deep-learning model trained on optical coherence tomography scans of the optic nerve head reliably distinguished among various types of optic nerve damage, such as glaucoma, non-arteritic anterior ...

Prolonged, often disabling, small-fiber neuropathy in long COVID may be caused by a defective immune response, a small longitudinal study suggested. Peripheral neuropathy was identified in 59% of 17 ...

The image shows motor neurons that have been generated from human iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cells) and integrated into a 3D-printed bioscaffold. The cells (shown in red) grow inside the ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne have discovered that the protein YME1L regulates the production of new nerve cells and the maintenance of neural stem cells in the adult brain. This holds ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

Small fiber neuropathy occurs as a result of damage to the small fibers of the peripheral nervous system. Damage to the peripheral nervous system that affects the small fibers can cause burning pain ...