axon

Preposition: of

cell: The O.N. is a tract consisting mainly of the axons of the ganglion cells of the retina.

Converse of object

• regenerate: Significantly more sciatic nerve axons regenerated in the exercised animals than the sedentary animals.
• call: The motor nerve cell body has a long fiber called an axon, which extends from the central nervous system to the muscles.
• have: The cell body of a sensory nerve has two axons.

Adjective modifier

• myelinated: These sclerotic plaques are the decay in the myelin sheathing of the myelinated axons from distinct regions within the CNS.
• unmyelinated: Gray matter contains nerve cell bodies and unmyelinated axons.
• sensory: In the absence of these embryonic growth cues adult sensory axons make major growth errors at key choice points.
• single: A single long axon carries the nerve impulse away from the cell body.
• long: A single long axon carries the nerve impulse away from the cell body.

Modifies a noun

• degeneration: In this way, we will build up a pathway of molecular events and their regulation during the early stages of axon degeneration.
• regeneration: Axon regeneration in the CNS fails for two reasons.
• terminal: Like all neurones, the sensory neuron has a cell body, an axon, dendrites and axon terminals.
• branch: Control of axon branch dynamics by correlated activity in vivo.
• guidance: In development we are looking at the roles of adhesion molecules in axon guidance at these regions.
• growth: Axon growth and guidance in the developing and regenerating CNS Jeremy SH Taylor BSc PhD University Lecturer Tel.

Noun used with modifier

• squid: Nobel Prize winning work on giant squid axons was undertaken at Plymouth.
• nerve: Figure 22 Transport of material along the nerve axon.
• terminal: Motor neurons that survive develop new terminal axon sprouts in response to an unknown stimulus.
• motor: Some branchial motor axons travel with the inferior alveolar nerve.
• cell: Nerves These are made up of bundles of nerve cell axons.