New Study Finds Axons May Resemble ‘Strings of Beads’ Instead of Smooth Lines

A recent study challenges the traditional view of axons as smooth, cylindrical fibres, revealing they may actually resemble “strings of beads” or nanoscopic varicosities. Conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University using a high-pressure freezing imaging method, the discovery showed rotund blobs connected by thin tubes within axons. These structures, explained…

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