Sentences with phrase «nerve fibres in»

These types of injuries can damage nerve fibres in the brain causing a traumatic brain injury.

The myelin sheath, which protects nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord, is attacked and damaged by the immune system.

IT MAY seem corny to compare the slithering growth of nerve fibres in the developing human embryo to traffic moving along roads and freeways, but the analogy is apt.

Not exact matches

How comes it that, with different nerve - fibres of touch and sight, we distinguish different space - points, but with one fibre distinguish nothing, although the different fibres are connected in the brain just as much as the parts are in the single fibre?

In an animal model, this technique successfully repaired nerve damage over distances of up to 6 cm: the nerve fibres grew back together in a functional way within 9 monthIn an animal model, this technique successfully repaired nerve damage over distances of up to 6 cm: the nerve fibres grew back together in a functional way within 9 monthin a functional way within 9 months.

Christine Radtke is working to use spider silk to reconnect severed nerve fibres Radtke and her colleagues at the Medical University of Hannover, from whence the surgeon transferred to Vienna in October 2016, developed a new microsurgical technique that involves filling the veins with spider silk to form a longitudinal guide structure.

«The nerve fibres use the silk fibres to grow along in order to reconnect with the other end of the nerve.

In comparison, rats given the same chemical and electrical treatment but trained on a treadmill were unable to move voluntarily as there was no regrowth of nerve fibres.

The rats saw a four-fold increase in nerve fibres throughout their brain and spine, with the new fibres bypassing the original injury and allowing signals from the brain to reach the spine.

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

In theory, by precisely stimulating the relevant nerve fibres it could be possible to make a prosthetic limb feel exactly like a real one — restoring not only fine variations of touch, but also sensations of hot and cold, and even pain.

The nerves were removed and used in an experiment in which allowed the researchers to stimulate the nerve fibres with electrodes on both ends.

«We found that these include multiple locations for nerve cells in the brainstem that innervate the heart with insulated fibres that conduct rapid impulses, causing an instantaneous cardiac response to each air - breath.»

This allows nerve fibres to grow in the right direction by following simple developmental rules controlled by biochemical signals — in a similar way to how the grid of New York City's streets makes it easy to give someone directions to a destination.

Previous research has showed that musicians have increased white matter integrity in a specific part of the brain called the corpus callosum, a thick band of nerve fibres that connects the left and right halves of the brain, enabling communication between the hemispheres.

Because slow conduction occurs in narrow fibres, Handwerker concludes that the itch nerve fibres must also be the thinnest so far found in humans.

Water tends to diffuse more quickly along nerve fibres than through other tissues, though researchers are not clear exactly what determines the speed of diffusion in different parts of the brain.

Postsynaptic P2 × 3 - containing receptors in gustatory nerve fibres mediate responses to all taste qualities in mice

During the 1980s, Marder led studies using antibodies and the technique of immunocytochemistry to reveal the presence of many different neuromodulators in nerve fibres around the STG of crabs, including serotonin, proctolin and GABA.

Dolapchieva, S. «Distribution of Concanavalin A and Wheat Germ Agglutinin Binding Sites in the Rat Peripheral Nerve Fibres Revealed by Lectin / glycoprotein - gold Histochemistry».

This occurs due to a moment of impact (often due to a sports injury or car accident) Â during which the brain is literally bounced around in the head and can endure tearing, bleeding, or bruising of nerve fibres.