nervous system

Watanabe had initially seen repeated axon pearling in the nervous system of worms and grew more curious about the structures after a discussion with Swiss scientist Graham Knott, Ph.D.

The activity of the central nervous system in the brain was measured in the crab when the soft tissues of claws, antennae and legs were subjected to some form of stress.

"By looking at the several stages of development, we can investigate these locomotive behaviors and the underlying changes in the nervous system," Vijatovic adds.

Despite recent progress in the field, there is still a pressing need for technologies that can bypass the blood-brain barrier and improve the delivery of biomacromolecule-based therapies to the central nervous system via systemic administration.

They developed the e-Drive to target a gene known as the voltage gated sodium ion channel, or vgsc, which is required for proper nervous system functioning.