Sentences with phrase «nerve fibers containing»

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Star - nosed moles have 22 tiny trunks containing a total of nearly 100,000 nerve fibers — six times as many touch receptors as on a human hand.

The sensors, which the researchers have already shrunk to a 1 millimeter cube — about the size of a large grain of sand — contain a piezoelectric crystal that converts ultrasound vibrations from outside the body into electricity to power a tiny, on - board transistor that is in contact with a nerve or muscle fiber.

Consistent with GFP expression in the geniculate ganglion, most taste buds innervated by the geniculate ganglion contained some GFP - labeled intragemmal nerve fibers.

Taste buds contain several types of chemosensory cells and are innervated by multiple nerve fibers.

He observed that the growing nerve fibers migrated from the central chamber only into the side chamber containing NGF.

When the NGF - rich solution was withdrawn from that side chamber, the nerve fibers that had extended into it began to degenerate, even though the neuronal cell bodies in the central NGF - containing chamber persisted in good condition.

In samples from the brains of humans, cats, and monkeys, she saw patches containing high concentrations of opioid receptor - bearing neurons, surrounded by a dense matrix of nerve fibers rich in acetyl cholinesterase.

The white matter of the spinal cord, which contains the nerve fibers responsible for transmitting movement commands from the brain to the limbs and sensory information from the limbs to the brain, degenerates.