Sentences with phrase «along the nerve fibers»

SLU researcher Tom Malone compares the way water moves along nerve fibers through the brain to a garden hose.

along nerve fibers, acting as an analgesic and has anti-inflammatory effects and helps reduce muscle spasm.

Once in nerve cells, the virus spreads along the nerve fibers, where it is protected from antibody attack.

It may inhibit pain impulses that travel along nerve fibers, acting as an analgesic.

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DTI «sees» the movement of water molecules within and along axons, the nerve fibers that constitute the brain's white matter.

This finding implies that the tip of a growing sympathetic nerve fiber elongates along a diffusion gradient of NGF released by the target organ.

Studies conducted by Hendry at the Australian National University and by K. Stockel and H. Thoenen at the Basel Institute for Immunology have demonstrated that NGF is taken up at the terminal nerve endings of the sympathetic fibers and transported back to the neuronal cell body along the axon.

In layman's terms, the motor unit is a collection of muscle fibers along with the nerve that tells those muscle fibers to contract.

Muscle fibers produce tensile force in this way in response to pulsed electrical signals sent from the central nervous system (CNS) along efferent nerves.

Unlike the action potential that travels in a single direction along the efferent nerve, the propagating MAP travels in both directions along the muscle fiber from the motor point.

When the central nervous system sends a signal (called neural drive) down the efferent nerves to the neuromuscular junction, this causes an action potential to propagate along the muscle fiber, leading to depolarization.

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.

Merck states: «The myelin sheaths of many nerve fibers promote transmission of the neural impulse along the axon.