Sentences with phrase «afferent neurons»

Jaclyn Dykstra, PhD (CMB) Advisers: Dr. Lucy Vulchanova & Dr. Al Beitz Thesis: Pain - relevant behavior associated with VGF expression in primary afferent neurons.
In addition to the microbiota themselves, the GI tract is also home to roughly 50,000 extrinsic and 100 million intrinsic sensory afferent neurons in the enteric nervous system.
When the head rotates, inertial drag of endolymph within the duct acts upon sensory hair cells that modulate the firing rates of primary vestibular afferent neurons.
Knockdown of sodium channel Na < sub > V 1.6 blocks mechanical pain and abnormal bursting activity of afferent neurons in inflamed sensory ganglia.
A plane's normal line has no polarity, but each semicircular canal can be rotated in a direction that provides an increase in afferent neuron firing rate (excitatory direction) or it may be rotated in the opposite direction to produce a decrease in afferent neuron firing rate (inhibitory direction).

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The work of Kremkow and colleagues indicates that the organization of all maps originates from the same principle: an arrangement of thalamic afferents that minimizes differences in spatial position, eye input and light / dark polarity among neighboring cortical neurons.
Afferent regulation of chicken auditory brainstem neurons: Rapid changes in phosphorylation of elongation factor 2.
Gene expression differences over a critical period of afferent - dependent neuron survival in the mouse auditory brainstem.
The H reflex is regarded as a measure of α - motor neuron excitability at the spinal level, but it can also be affected by inhibitory effects from Golgi tendon organ Ib afferents or by factors affecting neurotransmitter release at the Ia / α - motor neuron synapse (Palmieri et al. 2004).
The H - reflex is produced by an electrical stimulus, which causes action potentials to travel up afferent nerves until they synapse on α - motor neurons.
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