Microtubules are the largest type of filament ... For example, neurofilaments are found specifically in neurons (most prominently in the long axons of these cells), desmin filaments are found ...

Like other eukaryotic cells, neurons have a cytoskeleton that consists of three main polymers: microtubules (green), intermediate filaments (purple) and actin filaments (red). Microtubules emanate ...

In neurons, microtubules are essential for generating the axonal and dendritic extensions that carry electrical impulses. In most cells, these cylindrical polymers of tubulin grow from centrosomes, ...

Using a defined compound (parthenolide) from feverfew (Tanacetum Parthenium), they inhibited the vasohibins so that the ...

Neurons in the fly can radically remold their cytoskeleton to rebuild a severed axon -- a finding that might provide clues to how neurons recover from injury, researchers reported yesterday at the ...

This movie shows 3D renderings of these structures in high-resolution 3D electron microscopy images of fruit fly neurons. The ...

New research details the subcellular structures in neurons that enable signals to be transmitted from where they are received at specific sites on dendrites to the decision-making cell body located ...

Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that helps to stabilize the structure of neurons, specifically by supporting microtubules, cylindrical structures that contribute to cell motility ...