Sentences with phrase «induced by the nerve»

The drug reduced the pain hypersensitivity induced by the nerve injury (or accompanying inflammation) but did not affect nociceptive pain — the protective pain sensation that helps us avoid injury.

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Corneal nerve fiber assessment has great potential as a tool to diagnose and monitor peripheral neuropathy induced by HIV, say scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

A compound derived from the DHA in fish oil — Protectin D1 (PD1 / NPD1)-- offers protection from nerve trauma - induced neuropathic pain by preventing neuronal and glial hyperactivity in the spinal cord.

Writing in 2014 in the European Journal of Neuroscience, Leuner and colleagues reported that in rats with symptoms of postpartum depression (induced by stress during pregnancy, a major risk factor for postpartum depression in women), nerve cells in the nucleus accumbens atrophied and showed fewer protrusions called dendritic spines — suggesting weaker connections to surrounding nerve cells compared with healthy rats.

They successfully converted mature mouse skin cells into what they called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that had the same wide - open potential as embryonic stem cells — which the researchers showed by turning their iPS cells into nerve and connective tissue cells.

«The hospital care team, probably by placing the patients under heavy sedation or perhaps in an induced coma, will have been aiming to reduce any longer term effects while the nerve agent is steadily eliminated from the body.

In contrast, if regional differences are induced by signals received from the gut lumen, muscle, enteric nerves or other sources, then ISCs near a border should on occasion generate daughter cells from both regions.

Published literature proposes estrogen as having neuroprotective effects that provide a defense against nerve degeneration induced by excess glutamate.

Some physiological factors such as the ratio of fast - twitch to slow - twitch fibers in your muscles are genetically determined, but others, such as the speed of nerve impulses, which can be improved by both plyometric exercises and weight training, are only resistant to exercise - induced change.

Nobody should be putting themselves through something this nerve - wracking unless they're: a) getting paid for it, or b) attempting suicide by inducing a heart attack.

By Jacqui Barrett - Poindexter Next to a root canal appointment, few things in life are as nerve inducing as the job interview.