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Cells are a little bit like cities, as they have all sorts of different cargoes that need to be constantly transported to particular destinations. This delivery process is especially important for nerve cells, because they have a long, thin tube-like structure called an axon. Nerve cells need to deliver a wide range of proteins and specialized structures up and down axons if they are to remain alive and healthy. Neurons do this using a delivery system called axonal transport. In this article, we will explore what axonal transport is and how it works. We will also discover what cargoes the nerve cells need to spread along their axons, and why this is so important for keeping nerves alive. Finally, we will look at what happens when axonal transport goes wrong and see how this may cause diseases of the nervous system.

Axonal Transport: The Delivery System Keeping Nerve Cells Alive