Sentences with phrase «nerve cell it contacts»

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Dendritic cells mediate sensory nerve innervation and regeneration through direct cell - to - cell contact and CNTF secretion.

When new information needs processing, the nerve cells can develop new synaptic contacts with their neighbouring cells or strengthen existing synapses.

The traditional view is that learning is based on the strengthening or weakening of the contacts between the nerve cells in the brain.

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.

The new nerve cells were found to form specialized contacts with other cells.

When the growing nerve fiber and the target cell finally come in contact, the provisional adhesion consolidates into the structural and functional organization of the synapse.

The serotonergic type III taste cells appear to contact the 5 - HT3AGFP - expressing taste nerve fibers, which then are positioned appropriately to respond to a 5 - HT signal.

The epidermis is innervated by free sensory nerve endings that establish direct contact with skin cells.

Previous genetic studies in dogs, which can also develop OCD, have identified mutations that lead to alterations in the function of brain synapses — the points of contact between cells conveying nerve signals.

By the 1980s, it was well established that nerve cells communicate through the process of chemical synaptic transmission at specialized contacts called synapses.

Neurons, or nerve cells, communicate with each other through contact points called synapses.

Afterwards, their internet guy (with whom I had spoken) did an internet search on my (captured) cell phone # and then had the nerve to contact me to complain that he hadn't been able to find much (it was my private cell) on me or my company, and why was I not advertising on the internet, and what was our website, and wanted to know additional details about our company and myself... VERY creepy: — LRB - When I questioned him on this, he was rude and dismissive and responded that «you can never be too careful about who you are speaking with»!

However, the electrical charge Galvani observed was due to the combination of the two metals in contact with the nerve cells, as Volta suggested.

This contact can also cause decline in the nerve cells.

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