Nerve cells communicate by sending electrical signals called action potentials down long fibers called axons, which are wrapped in an insulating substance called myelin.

Neuronal growth cones are situated on the very tips of nerve cells on structures called axons and dendrites.

The human brain contains about 85 billion nerve cells called neurons, each individually linked to other neurons by way of connectors called axons and dendrites.

As he pulls, the connections between cells, called axons, begin to stretch.

These cells make dense, threadlike connections, called axons, to other nerve cells all over the brain and into the spinal cord.

In human beings the comparable connectives are called axons and dendrites - " "I am familiar with the anatomical details you are describing.

They send these signals in the form of electrochemical waves traveling along thin fibers called axons, which cause chemicals called neurotransmitters to be released at junctions called synapses.

Once severed, these connections (formed by cellular structures called axons), tend not to regrow-at least not in the spine.

It can also damage the nerves (called axons) within the central nervous system.

These 100 million or so cells, the only producers of dopamine, form long nerve fibers called axons that reach out to billions of cells in almost every other part of the brain.