How to Use axon in a Sentence

axon

noun

• This protein is engineered to bind to the RNA bar code so that the tag, too, is dragged along the axon.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2018
• The tip of the axon, called a growth cone, senses chemicals drifting by.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2011
• Some RGC axons grew all the way back to the brain’s visual-processing areas.
  — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
• The synapse is the space that separates a dendrite or axon from another cell.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
• In fact, there are 774 motor axons—the long fibers stretching out from neurons in the spinal cord—that control all the muscle fibers in our biceps.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2018
• Each axon connects with the dendrites of tens of thousands of Purkinje cells.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
• Six weeks after the injury, analysis showed that 70% of the axons in these mice had grown through the injury site, compared to only 1 or 2% in normal mice.
  — Steven Edwards, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2007
• The axon translates raw brain signals from the node into standard commands that work with any Bluetooth device.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• That may or may not result in a spike, or action potential, going out on the neuron’s axon to the dendrites of post-synaptic neurons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021
• Indeed, every 3-cm increase in axon length is calculated to add more than double the volume of the neuronal cell body to the axon each day.
  — Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
• The axon from one spinal cord motor neuron branches and makes a small cluster of muscle fibers contract together.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2018
• Along with blood vessel damage, injury to axons is what leaves us with lingering symptoms.
  — Erin Kirkland, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
• The space between an axon terminal and a dendrite, where chemical signals are deposited and picked up, is called a synapse.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
• Humans may also soon enter the competition for the most extreme axon stretch growth.
  — Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
• Besides bruising and swelling, researchers believe that force can cause the brain to elongate, stretching nerve cells and their axons — fiber-like parts that transmit messages between cells.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
• In a similar way, the branching of axons and dendrites from neurons also obeys local growth principles.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 July 2017
• In particular, the drugs appeared to fuel the growth of dendritic spines and axons, the appendages that brain cells of all sorts use to reach out in the darkness and create connections, or synapses, with other brain cells.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
• Then, once the voltage reaches a specific threshold, a pulse is fired along organic amplifiers that mimic a nerve cell axon.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 30 June 2022
• In fact, this kind of skewed distribution has appeared across multiple scales in the brain — in the firing rates of neurons, in the strength of synapses, and in the conduction velocity of axons, for example.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2019
• If cortical neurons get a lot of conversation from one eye and none from the other eye, axons representing the first eye grab all the synaptic spaces on the cortical neurons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
• The main body of the neuron conveys those pulses to an outgoing arm, or axon, which splits into numerous branches, each of which nearly touches other neurons.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
• After 90 days, axons — the nerve fibers that carry neurons’ outgoing messages — had connected with host neurons.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2019
• Information for both signals can be encoded in the spikes of electrical activity that the neuron sends down its axon as an output.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021
• This is an important finding because squid nerve cells are immense, with axons sometimes stretching several feet long.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 24 Mar. 2020
• One set of axons projected to the periacqueductal gray in the midbrain, an area involved in motor behaviors.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2018
• Distant neurons talk to each other through axons, which extend, tentacle-like, from the body of one neuron to tickle another with an electrical signal.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2019
• Among neurons, in contrast, the fusion happened farther away from the cell body, at long, thin extensions known as dendrites and axons, which are critical for cell-cell communication.
  — Byclaudia Lopez Lloreda, science.org, 7 June 2023
• Mice that already had amyloid pathology developed neuritic plaque tau, the axon-damaging form of the protein.
  — Jason Ulrich, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• Second, the electrical signals those cells generate flow through neurons in one direction: branching dendrites receive the pulse, pass it to the main cell body and then along their axons—long projections that can connect distant parts of the brain.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
• This structure gave cells ready access to the gel’s nutrients while mimicking alternating between gray and white matter in the cortex, where gray matter contains neuron cell bodies and white matter contains the long axons connecting them.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Aug 2024