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137: 36: 284: 359:) and polyribosomes. Within the axon hillock, materials are sorted as either items that will enter the axon (like the components of the cytoskeletal architecture of the axon, mitochondria, etc.) or will remain in the soma. In addition, the axon hillock also has a specialized plasma membrane that contains large numbers of voltage-gated ion channels, since this is most often the site of 347:. Such transport of molecules towards and away from the soma maintains critical cell functions. In case of neurons, the soma receives a large number of inhibitory synapses, which can regulate the activity of these cells. It has also been shown that microglial processes constantly monitor neuronal functions through somatic junctions, and exert neuroprotection when needed. 386:
at axon terminals, and this produces a signal that must be transported up the length of the axon to the nucleus. A current theory of how such survival signals are sent from axon endings to the soma includes the idea that NGF receptors are
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is a specialized domain of the neuronal cell body from which the axon originates. A high amount of protein synthesis occurs in this region, as it contains many Nissl granules (which are ribosomes wrapped in
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Intermediate filaments are abundant in both perikarya and axonal and dendritic processes and are called
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that do not travel far from the cell nucleus. This creates a challenge for supplying new proteins to
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from the surface of axon tips and that such endocytotic vesicles are transported up the axon.
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depends on axon terminals making contact with sources of survival factors that prevent
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to over 10 millimetres for some of the smallest and largest neurons of
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endings that can be a meter or more away from the soma. Axons contain
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The soma of a neuron (i.e., the main part of the neuron in which the
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At one end of an elongated structure is a branching mass. At the centre of this mass is the nucleus and the branches are dendrites. A thick axon trails away from the mass, ending with further branching which are labeled as axon terminals. Along the axon are a number of protuberances labeled as myelin sheaths.
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