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Everything about Axon terminal
Nerve fiber part
Axon terminals are distal terminations of the branches of an axon. An axon, also called a nerve fiber, is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell that conducts electrical impulses called action potentials away from the neuron's cell body to transmit those impulses to other neurons, muscle cells, or glands. Most presynaptic terminals in the central nervous system are formed along the axons, not at their ends. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Axon terminalA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: α-Synuclein at the Presynaptic Axon Terminal as a Double-Edged SwordInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The physiology of insectaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Activated c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase Is Required for Axon FormationCited 144 times
- Go sideways: Active zoneA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Chemical synapseA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Activated c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase Is Required for Axon Formation
Axon/Dendrite Targeting of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors by Their Cytoplasmic Carboxy-Terminal Domains
Preterminal and terminal axon arborizations in the substantia gelatinosa of cat's spinal cord
Development of focal seizures in cerebral cortex: role of axon terminal bursting.
Brain asymmetry is encoded at the level of axon terminal morphology
Light Evokes Ca 2+ Spikes in the Axon Terminal of a Retinal Bipolar Cell
Cytoplasmic architecture of the axon terminal: Filamentous strands specifically associated with synaptic vesicles
Synaptic vesicle pools at diaphragm neuromuscular junctions vary with motoneuron soma, not axon terminal, inactivity
🆕 Influential since 2022
α-Synuclein at the Presynaptic Axon Terminal as a Double-Edged Sword
Axon–axon interactions determine modality-specific wiring and subcellular synaptic specificity in a somatosensory circuit
Isoforms of terminal selector Mamo control axon guidance during adult Drosophila memory center construction via Semaphorin-1a
The Drosophila homolog of APP promotes Dscam expression to drive axon terminal growth, revealing interaction between Down syndrome genes
Amino-terminal proteolytic fragment of the axon growth inhibitor Nogo-A (Rtn4A) is upregulated by injury and promotes axon regeneration
📚 Books worth reading
The physiology of insectaMorris Rockstein · 1964- 📕JahreskalenderJulia Axon · 2018
Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementiaErik D. Roberson · 2011- 📕Calcium dependent potassium conductance in the inhibitory axonal terminal of the crayfishJodi Beth Dickstein · 1993
- 📕Retrograde axonal transport of specific macromolecules as a tool for characterizing nerve terminal membranesMarc Dumas · 1980
- 📕Zinc iodode-osmium staining of normal and degenerating axons and terminals in the central nervous system of the catRussell Snyder · 1973
Cell biology of the axonEdward Koenig · 2009
Development and engineering of dopamine neuronsR. Jeroen Pasterkamp, Marten P. Smidt · 2009
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