Sentences with phrase «chemical signals passing»
The thinking that happens inside your brain can be traced to chemical signals passing between neurons, and those chemicals move the way they do because of electromagnetism.
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By analyzing chemical changes of the IRS - 2 protein in immortalized cultures of human white blood cells, it determined that IRS - 2 appeared in two different forms — «on,» which allows the signal to pass through, and «off,» which stops the signal from activating the cells into M2 macrophages.
Drugs work by interfering with the chemical signals that pass between neurons.
In the brains of all vertebrates, information is transmitted through synapses, a mechanism that allows an electric or chemical signal to be passed from one brain cell to another.
The design was specific to that of a biological synapse — a small gap that exists between adjoining neurons over which chemical and electrical signals are passed.
The effect could even be passed from one animal to another with a blood transfusion, suggesting that the squeezed limb released some sort of beneficial chemical signal into the blood.
The human nervous system is made up of over 100 trillion synapses, structures that allow neurons to pass electrical and chemical signals to one another.
Apparently, the irradiated cells pass on a distress signal or emit some chemical that breaks the DNA of neighboring cells (ScienceNOW, 7 September 2005).
Depression is associated with a multitude of pathological processes, including inflammation of the peripheral immune system, a set of biological structures and processes in the lymph nodes and other tissues that protect against disease and abnormalities involving synapses, the structures that permit neurons to pass an electrical or chemical signal to other neurons.
When an electrical signal arrives at a nerve terminal and needs to be passed along to the next neuron, neurotransmitters, or chemical messengers, packed in vesicles mediate this process.
Synapses are structure that permits nerve cells to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another cell.