Sentences with phrase «nerve reaches the brain»

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Similarly we see the impressions reaching the brain by the intermediation of the nerves; they then are isolated and without coherence.

Pain signals reach the brain via the activation of sodium channels located in the membranes of nerve cells.

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.

Touch receptors in your skin sense the insect and activate an electrical current that passes along nerves until it reaches your brain, which registers the fly's presence and instigates a response.

Cytokines can reach the brain several ways: directly through the blood - brain barrier or indirectly by binding to nerve fibers elsewhere, which send signals to the brain to produce the inflammation molecules.

In researches using the more complex animals, it is known that certain nerve cells in the brain integrate information and make a decision when reaching a certain level, which likely occurs also in humans.

Fibers of the vagus nerve connect the brain to a variety of internal organs; travelling within these fibers, human alpha - synuclein was ultimately able to reach the gastric wall about six months after its initial midbrain expression.

The team found that the virus infected nerves in the gut, then entered the brain stem and finally reached the brain.

Apparently the NGF injected into the brain diffused through the motor and sensory roots of the spinal cord and reached the sympathetic chain ganglia flanking the cord, where it induced the outgrowth of nerve fibers.

Optic nerves are mostly incapable of growing straight back to the brain, and often fail to reach the brain.

-- Ghrelin can reach the brain via the vagus nerve and the terminal nucleus of the medulla.

Although pain experts aren't entirely certain why PNS improves fibromyalgia symptoms, they suspect that the electricity blocks pain signals from reaching the brain by disrupting a set of nerves in the spinal cord.

And new research from the Cleveland Clinic shows that music can even reach into deep brain structures unrelated to hearing and memory to literally soothe nerves.

Inhalation of these compounds reaches the bloodstream through the lungs as well as the emotion center of the brain following a complex network of nerves.

Signals produced by these microbial - neural interactions may reach the brain via the vagus nerve.