Biological cells are well known to respond to a multitude of chemical signals. In the nervous
system, chemical signaling has been shown to be crucially involved in development, normal …

The development of the nervous system has so far, to a large extent, been considered in the
context of biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics. However, there is growing …

For a long time, neuroscience has focused on biochemical, molecular biological and
electrophysiological aspects of neuronal physiology and pathology. However, there is a growing …

Although biological cells are mostly transparent, they are phase objects that differ in shape
and refractive index. Any image that is projected through layers of randomly oriented cells will …

During nervous system development, neurons extend axons along well-defined pathways.
The current understanding of axon pathfinding is based mainly on chemical signaling. …

One hundred fifty years ago glial cells were discovered as a second, non-neuronal, cell type
in the central nervous system. To ascribe a function to these new, enigmatic cells, it was …

… i–k, Overview and quantifications of the differentiation rates of aOPCs, following the
injection of DMSO or 5 µM blebbistatin, at 14 days post-lesion in lesions induced by toxin (ethidium …

… The ligation mixture was then incubated with Proteinase K (Roche) at 65 C overnight to
reverse the crosslinking and was incubated with RNase A (Roche) at 37 C for 1 h. DNA was …

Injury to the central nervous system (CNS) alters the molecular and cellular composition of
neural tissue and leads to glial scarring, which inhibits the regrowth of damaged axons. …

Superhydrophobicity is generally considered to be a thermodynamically stable wetting state.
The stability of the plastron (the thin air film separating the substrate from the water in the …