Sentences with phrase «carry chemical signals»

Animals produce natural hormones that carry chemical signals capable of influencing the behavior of other animals within the same species.

Some amino acids control our moods — they cross the blood - brain barrier, carrying the chemical signals in our brains.

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Vitamin B6 is a vital nutrient that helps with the production of several neurotransmitters; chemicals that carry signals from one nerve cell to another.

Blood samples from infants who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) had high levels of serotonin, a chemical that carries signals along and between nerves, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health.

These thin, tubelike structures transmit electrical and chemical signals that are vital for carrying information among different regions of the brain.

Blood samples from infants who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) had high levels of serotonin, a chemical that carries signals along and between nerves, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health.

Several long - lived worms carry mutations in a gene involved in a process that appears to use chemical signals to trigger activities inside cells.

Specialised cells that could carry messages using electrical impulses and chemical signals — the first nerve cells — arose very early on.

Rose and neuroscience doctoral student Rishi Alluri used a novel combination of recording electrical activity of single brain cells and blocking neurotransmitter chemicals that carry nerve signals from one nerve cell or neuron to the next.

Cells move along this pathway partly carried by the flow of cerebrospinal fluid and partly guided by chemical signals.

Nutrients such as amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) and sugars and chemical signals such as hormones hitch a ride in the plasma and are carried throughout the body.

Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that carry signals from nerve cell to nerve cell throughout the nervous system.

Serotonin is one of the chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) that carry signals between brain cells.

Neurotransmitters are basically chemical messengers responsible for carrying, boosting and modulating signals between neurons.