Neuroscience

Neuroscience

Neuroscience is a branch of biology concerned with the study of the nervous system, the brain and the links between brain activities and behaviors.

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Raphe nuclei

Biology; Neuroscience

A collection of serotonergic nuclei in the brainstem tegmentum; important in the governance of sleep and waking.

Astrotactin

Biology; Neuroscience

A cell surface molecule that causes neurons to adhere to radial glial fibres during neuronal migration.

Neurohormone

Biology; Neuroscience

A chemical signal produced and released by neurons that subsequently functions as a hormone.

Nerve

Biology; Neuroscience

A collection of peripheral axons that are bundled together and travel a common route.

α-fetoprotein

Biology; Neuroscience

A protein that actively sequesters circulating estrogens, preventing maternal oestrogen from affecting the sexual differentiation of the fetus.

Horseradish peroxidase (HRP)

Biology; Neuroscience

A plant enzyme widely used to stain nerve cells (after injection into a neuron, it generates a visible precipitate by one of several histochemical reactions).

Neural stem cell

Biology; Neuroscience

A precursor cell type that can give rise to the full complement of cell classes found in neural tissue‚ i.e., neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendroglia, as well as more neural stem cells.