They focused on impaired mitochondrial transport in the axon, a portion of nerve cells that carries nerve impulses away from ...

In 1931, Dorothea Smith observed variable mitochondrial networks in developing rat liver cells (Smith 1931). Over subsequent years, many scientists described complex mitochondrial networks in ...

There are three main types of neurone: sensory, motor and relay. They have some features in common: A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath. They are long so they can ...