Sentences with phrase «impulses along nerve»

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have now conducted experiments that raise doubts about this well - established model of electrical impulses along the nerve pathway.

The myelin sheath's role is to rapidly move electrical impulses along nerves, and if it is damaged — or demyelinated — then nerve function is compromised.

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The standard explanation recounts the existence of a material object, its reflection of light waves of a certain length, the transference of these light waves from the object to the perceptual organs of the observer (in this case, the eyes), the interaction of the light waves with the rods and cones of the retina, the transference of nerve impulses along the relevant nerves to the brain, and, finally, the production of the sensation of sight.

Nerve cells communicate by means of electrical impulses, which are transmitted along neural processes known as axons.

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

Her team is currently examining the ion channels that open and close to allow the flow of ions as electrical impulses pass along the nerve cell membrane.

Axon extension of a nerve cell along which nerve impulses travel away from the cell body towards other cells.

Along with potassium, they create a membrane potential, or electrochemical gradient, between cells; the resulting electrical charges carry nerve impulses, contract muscle cells and help regulate your heartbeat.

The term potentiation as it relates to strength training is defined as «the increase in the strength of nerve impulses along pathways that have been used previously.»

Metaflumizoneis a neurotoxin; it blocks the movement of sodium required to propagate a nerve impulse along the neuron.

As those impulses jump along between nerve cells (at the synapses), they utilized a chemical called acetylcholine.

Messages are transmitted along nerves in the form of electric impulses.

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

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