Sentences with phrase «affect nerve fibers»

They can affect nerve fibers to the skin, causing itchiness.

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All of us daily lose some of the 2 million nerve fibers in our optic nerve and we can lose 50 - 60 percent of them without it really affecting our vision, Liu says.

It focused on changes in axons — the fibers, the nerve signal «transmission «lines within the spinal cord that affect voluntary movement after stroke.

A small fiber neuropathy occurs when damage to the peripheral nerves predominantly or entirely affects the small myelinated (Aδ) fibers or unmyelinated C fibers.

Biopsies of nerve from affected dogs show degradation of the nerve fibers and loss of myelin, the insulating material that normally helps speed messages along nerves.