About 10 in 100 people are left-handed, but why? A new article highlights the crucial role of early brain development for ...

Tau is a protein that is found in cells of the central nervous system and is involved in the assembly and stabilisation of neuronal microtubules ... Anavex and Axon Neurosciences have other ...

This Review summarizes our current understanding of the mechanisms of tau-mediated neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. It is believed that tau-mediated ...

The main structural components of interneurons are the soma, the dendrites, the axon, and their electrical and chemical synaptic connections. Each component is associated with a set of features ...

Defective, depolarized mitochondria may be removed from cells via mitophagy promoted by Parkin (and PINK1/DJ-1), and be dependent on binding to microtubules and transport along axons to the cell body.

The long tail of a sperm cell, the finger-like cilia in the lungs, and the long axons of nerves are all built with microtubules—basic building blocks of the cell’s cytoskeleton. These structures are a ...