(Glial cells support and protect neurons in the central nervous system.) Their discovery recently appeared in the Journal of Neuroscience. Specifically, Silver and Lee bridged the gap between severed ...

Nerve cells, or neurons, are the basic functional units of the ... or other signals via receptors or through gap junctions (direct connections between two membranes), axons that propagate action ...

What cells and specialized ... with increasing frequency of the nerve electrical activity. The radial muscles are thought to be connected to each other by gap junctions (Florey, 1969) so that ...