Sentences with phrase «nerve bundles»

Dog acupuncture points are found on areas of the body where nerve bundles and blood vessels come together.

It does this by directly stimulating nerve bundles — known as peripheral nerves — in the arms of patients; two people have so far been fitted with the interface.

Tyler's team implanted electrode «cuffs» that clamped around nerve bundles in the arms of two people who had lost a hand, again restoring a limited sense of touch.

After noticing mirror - image pain in her patients with shingles, Oaklander cut nerve bundles in the hind paws of rats to see what would happen.

Because these light - sensitive cells are in close contact with nerve bundles, they might be the ones responsible for detecting visual cues and sending the signal along the nerves, Sumner - Rooney says.

By focusing light onto nerve bundles that researchers thought ran below these «microlenses», the arrangement would allow the animal to form an image.

But these devices work crudely, and in many cases they disperse electricity to many nerve bundles instead of specific ones that control individual functions.

These new bioelectronic implants are designed to sit on or near nerve bundles.

With the help of an animal model, the researchers from Skintegrity discovered that fine nerve bundles change drastically if they are injured when a skin wound occurs.

Cells along the injured nerve bundles, known as glial cells, change their original identity and are reprogrammed to «repair cells.»

But diffusion MRI suffers from magnetic field artifacts that can distort the actual location of tumors by as much as 1.2 centimeters or roughly half an inch — a significant distance when surgeons are attempting, for example, to assess whether a tumor extends beyond the prostate and into adjacent nerve bundles.

Note the position of the axochord between the ventral nerve bundle and the ventral blood vessel.

The only difference is that the chordate nerve bundle is dorsal.

Acupuncture points contain nerve bundles, clusters of blood vessels, and increased numbers of mast cells that release histamine and other chemicals when stimulated — including endorphins and enkephalins, the body's natural pain killers.

Dogs take in the pheromone through nerve bundles around the nose.

Acupuncture involves the insertion of needles into certain points of the body where nerve bundles and blood vessels intersect.

Researchers need only a computer mouse and web browser to home in on individual cells and zoom back out to intertwined networks of nerve bundles.

Earlier in the week, tests had revealed a suspicious growth atop a nerve bundle in my pelvis, which explained the shooting leg pains I had been experiencing.

Tyler agrees that stimulating individual fibres in the nerve bundles leads to finer degrees of sensation.

When the team peered into the brittlestar's body, they saw that the nerve bundles ran between, rather than below, the crystal structures — contrary to what they expected.

During the treatment, which is minimally invasive and does not involve needles touching the patient, researchers inserted a spaghetti - sized catheter through the nasal passages and administered 4 percent lidocaine to the sphenopalatine ganglion, a nerve bundle just behind the nose associated with migraines.

Thin and flexible, the $ 1,000 Dyneema suits weigh less than 10 pounds and protect vulnerable femoral arteries, nerve bundles, and joints.

Although some spinal cord injuries completely transect the nerve bundle, most involve a crushing of the cord, which may leave some viable, through nonfunctioning, nerve connections.

They thereby lose their contact to the nerve bundles and disseminate into the wound bed.

The researchers performed a «heart block» on 13 pigs by disabling the nerve bundle that conducts electrical impulses between the atria and ventricles.

Gunstad and his colleagues used MRI to study the nerve bundles that shuttle information through the brain.

The arrhythmia did not respond to drug treatment, so anesthesiologists were brought in to perform left stellate ganglion block, an injection of medication into a nerve bundle in the neck, allowing diagnosis and further treatment.

The gut, the major blood vessels, and the nerve bundle are clearly visible.

One distinction to note is that the nerve bundle is dorsal in zebrafish and ventral in annelids.

Many acupuncture points correspond to nerve bundles or muscle trigger points.

The practitioner applies precisely located, manipulations over tendons, muscles and nerve bundles.

Acupuncture involves the insertion of needles into body tissue where nerve bundles and blood vessels come together.

Tiny acupuncture needles are inserted into the skin where nerve bundles and blood vessels are located — called acupuncture or energy points — to improve blood circulation, oxygen flow, nerve stimulation, and the release of hormones that help relieve inflammation and pain.

Essentially, it can also occur any time you injure or break a vertebra in the spine, generating pressure on the nerve bundle inside.