11634 IUPAC Gold Book - beading 10.1351/goldbook.11634 11634 current synonym: neuritic beading 1 Focal bead-like swellings in dendrites and axons. These swellings can be an early neuropathological sign in neuronal injury, e.g., in epilepsy, trauma, ischemia, aging, and neurodegenerative diseases. axons https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/11627 neurodegenerative diseases https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/11926 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 852 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11634/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11634/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11634/plain Citation: 'beading' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11634 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-08-02T12:38:38+00:00