Watanabe and his team used electron microscopy to examine unmyelinated axons in mice and determine whether the pearled pattern was the natural axon shape. Watanabe began his investigation by exploring ...

“These findings challenge a century of understanding about axon structure,” Shigeki Watanabe, study author and associate professor of cell biology and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins ...

On the technical side, our lab uses a number of complementary approaches to identify and study genes controlling axon navigation ... bioinformatics to predict candidate genes and molecular biology ...

The Hodgkin-Huxley (H-H) theory of the action potential, formulated 50 years ago, remains one of the great success stories in biology ... range of data from squid axon, including the shape ...