Sentences with phrase «messages along nerves»

Biopsies of nerve from affected dogs show degradation of the nerve fibers and loss of myelin, the insulating material that normally helps speed messages along nerves.

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When chemical phosphate groups are added to the receptors, they move from the cytoplasm and cluster on the edges of nerve cells along synapses — the spaces between nerve cells where messages transmit from one cell to another.
The cochlea transmits sound information through these nerves to the spiral ganglion, which then passes along those messages to the brain.
Messages are transmitted along nerves in the form of electric impulses.
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