In unmyelinated axons, the action potential travels continuously along the axons. For example, in unmyelinated C fibers that conduct pain or temperature (0.4–1.2 μm in diameter), ...

In the case of unmyelinated axons, the nerve impulse, or action potential, moves along the axon continuously. By contrast, in myelinated nerve fiber, currents can only occur where the axonal ...

Their findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, contrast with the classical view of tubular axons. 2 The researchers propose that this shape is a ubiquitous feature in all unmyelinated axons; ...

Axons are the processes that extend from neuronal cell bodies, carrying signals between those bodies. In the grey matter, these axons are mainly unmyelinated, meaning they are not covered by a ...

Although unmyelinated axons comprise up to 30% of the axons that traverse this commissure, remarkably little is known about the information carried by these fibers.

Unmyelinated axons Myelinated neurons transmit electrical signals more quickly than the unmyelinated nerves in the body. Myelinated axons are present in sensory neurons and motor neurons, but not ...

Myelinated axons increases a neuron's transmission speed by as much as 100 times that of an unmyelinated axon. Myelin is not present in jawless vertebrates, which diverged from the jawed ...

Neuropil – regions consisting of a mix of dendrites, unmyelinated axons and glia. There are relatively few cell bodies in the neuropil, and it has been used in some studies as a proxy for connections ...

Many unmyelinated axons (green areas in Panel A) appeared dystrophic. As shown in Panel B, in demyelinated regions of brain that contained straight, healthy-appearing axons ...

Myelinated axons increases a neuron's transmission speed by as much as 100 times that of an unmyelinated axon. Myelin is not present in jawless vertebrates, which diverged from the jawed ...