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AXONAL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or resembling an axon

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

neuroscience (the scientific study of the nervous system)

Pertainym:

axon (long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron)

Derivation:

axon (long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron)

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 Context examples: 

This gene may be involved in axonal structure.

(CNTNAP2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare neuroaxonal dystrophy, histologically characterized by axonal spheroids, iron deposition, lewy body (LB)-like intraneuronal inclusions and neurofibrillary tangles.

(Brain Iron Accumulation Type I Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Nitration may target neurofilament proteins, disrupting their phosphorylation and affecting axonal transport.

(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

It is composed of a wide, flat bundle of 200-250 million axonal projections.

(Corpus Callosum, NCI Thesaurus)

The wild-type allele is involved in the regulation of both vascularization and axonal outgrowth.

(CSPG4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes ephrin type-A receptor 8 protein, plays a role in mediating developmental events such as short-range contact-mediated axonal guidance during nervous system development.

(EPHA8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in axonal interactions in the nervous system.

(EPHA8 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation of the gene is associated with centronuclear myopathy type 1 and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease types dominant intermediate B and 2M axonal.

(DNM2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes netrin receptor DCC protein, plays a role in both axonal guidance and neuronal growth cone formation.

(DCC wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The mice had modest but significant axonal regrowth compared to control mice that did not receive the high-contrast visual stimulation.

(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)