Sentences with phrase «flow into nerve cells»

Like a type of door, sodium channels allow sodium ions to flow into nerve cells through tiny pores.

The team studied the anesthetic ketamine, which blocks NMDA (N - methyl - D - aspartate) receptor proteins that enable charged particles like calcium to flow into nerve cells, like electric switches that trigger and shape messages.

When enough ions have flowed into the nerve cell, an electrical impulse is released and transmitted along the nerve.

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After this nerve impulse transaction completes, the serotonin transporter SERT grabs up the serotonin and carts it back into the message - sending cell, a metabolic process marked by the ebb and flow of the chemical.

These cells have the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier and travel directly into the nervous system to improve blood flow to the brain and repair some of the nerve damage which has occurred as a result of your degenerative disease or neurological injury.