Sentences with phrase «hypersensitive nerve»

Neurologists believe they have identified a hypersensitive nerve system that triggers the pain and are in the final stages of testing medicines that soothe its overly active cells.

Currently, asthma treatments such as anticholinergics target the hypersensitive nerves that connect the brain to so - called parasympathetic neurons in the smooth muscle of the airway.

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In prior, unrelated experiments, the same species of worm had become hypersensitive to smell when its nerve cells experienced problems with dopamine signaling, a cellular process that helps control how readily cells can communicate with one another.

When the researchers silenced the genes in the peripheral nerves of adult animals, they were still hypersensitive to light touch, but they didn't display the behavioral abnormalities seen in the animals that had the gene silenced from birth.

Many times the sensory nerves become hypersensitive and the breasts can not be touched.

It is believed that the inflammation of the prostate gland spreads across the nerves in the pelvic area, making ejaculatory nerves hypersensitive and disfunctional thus causing or contributing to PE.