The brain is responsible for processing and interpreting, or making sense, of information that is sent to it by nerves, and the spinal cord sends instructions on what to do back to the peripheral ...

The structure and function of the kidney, including its roles in urine production and homeostasis. This is the first in a series of articles examining the renal system.

The vascular system supplies oxygen to the body and removes waste through five types of blood vessels. This article, the first in a three-part series, discusses vascular anatomy and physiology The ...

Alexandra Else-Keller, head teaching assistant for Domestic Animal Physiology, leads instruction using an interactive virtual anatomy system in a lab in Kildee Hall. Photos by Christopher Gannon.

As so few monographs have been available, Prof. J. F. Fulton's book “Physiology of the Nervous System”, which he describes as an exposition of the experimental approach to the subject, is of ...

Neuroscience examines the structure and function of the human brain and nervous system. Neuroscientists use cellular and molecular biology, anatomy and physiology, human behavior and cognition ...

In the developing nervous system, synapse elimination involves a massive loss and eventual disappearance of cellular material.

BRONX, N.Y., July 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- In a study published online today in Nature, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe the first complete wiring diagram of the nervous ...

Nematodes, an abundant group of roundworms that exist in nearly every habitat, have long been used as model organisms for studying the function of neurons -- the basic unit of animal nervous ...