Sentences with phrase «activated by nerves»

All muscular - skeletal muscles are activated by nerves.

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That's because TRPV1 receptors — proteins on nerve endings that detect heat — are activated by capsaicin, and erroneously interpret capsaicin as a signal of extreme heat, Live Science reported previously.

If that's difficult to envision, get this: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers contain about as much capsaicin — the chemical compound in peppers that makes them burn by activating heat receptors in human nerve endings — as a shot glass full of law enforcement - grade pepper spray.

Found in the sensory nerve cells of vertebrates, TRPM8 typically sends a sensation of cold to the brain when activated by low temperatures.

Follow - up work by Suthana suggests that activating the entorhinal cortex isn't enough: Targeting a particular path of nerve fibers matters.

The bacteria, when injected into mice, activate a set of serotonin - releasing neurons in the brain — the same nerves targeted by Prozac.

The team injected chemicals similar to those released in a healthy rat by the brainstem pathways that activate nerves controlling lower body movement.

The researchers believe that the technique may work by somehow activating nerve pathways in the brain that were linked to the missing limb, but that became dormant after its loss.

If this ion channel is applied to nerve cells, the channels can be opened by light, thus activating the cell.

The impulses cause glutamate (one of the brain's main neurotransmitters) to pop out of one nerve cell and travel across the synapse to activate the next by binding to its receptors, chemically active signaling stations on the cell surface.

The pair have already successfully begun to use DTI to map brain structure at the level of nerve fibres, and it could be fruitful to follow connections out from a point activated by TMS, says Johansen - Berg.

Genetic analysis of the activated cells in the two groups of mice showed that the neurons triggered by a full belly released glutamate, a chemical that nerve cells use to signal one another, while the neurons triggered by hunger released a different neurotransmitter, known as GABA.

The nerve, stimulated by the charge, activates muscles that thrust Pierce's tongue forward in his mouth, which pulls his airway open.

Moreover, the researchers identified the specific nerve - damaging toxins produced by these activated microglia.

The 5 - HT released by type III cells could also activate 5 - HT3 receptors on afferent nerve fibers.

Researchers from the Texas A&M University have discovered that a person's alcohol drinking behavior could be easily influenced by activating a certain set of nerve cells in the brain.

The brain may further modulate the pain signal by activating the «descending pain control system,» made up of bundles of nerve fibers that travel from brain to spinal cord to decrease the pain signal.

When the virus is activated by hormones or stress on the neurones, it leaves its host neurone cells intact but travels down the nerve to the skin.

In other words, nerves in the arms activated and adapted to improve function of the spinal cord in other areas of the body, such as the legs, affected by stroke.

Whereas the enhancing effect of acute stress is mediated mainly by glucocorticoids activating presynaptic glutamatergic nerve endings, chronic stress exerts its effect most probably via altering regulation of glutamate release termination.»

The muscle strength can be identified by the ability of nerves to activate muscle fibers during muscle contraction.

After the amygdala sends a distress signal, the hypothalamus activates the sympathetic nervous system by sending signals through the autonomic nerves to the adrenal glands.

«Slow and deep diaphragmatic breathing activates the vagus nerve which helps counteract the numerous stress responses triggered in the body by physical and emotional stress,» recommends Elaine.

Exerting anti-inflammatory effects which may be assisted by activating the vagus nerves and deactivating inflammatory transmitters.

The hamstrings are activated by the sciatic nerve, which originates in the lumbar spine, or lower back.