Sentences with phrase «nerve signals sent»

The device detects and translates nerve signals sent by the brain to the vocal cords when we merely think about speaking a sound.

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Dr. Marianne Neifert, a pediatrician and author of «Great Expectations: The Essential Guide to Breastfeeding,» explains that nipple incisions for implants should be avoided if breastfeeding is important to the patient [because] all the milk ducts that drain the different lobes or sections of the breast kind of convene there [and] it's possible to accidentally cut milk ducts or the nerve that sends the signal to your brain to release more hormones that then helps you to produce more milk.»

«It's possible to accidently cut milk ducts or the nerve that sends the signal to your brain to release more hormones that then helps you to produce more milk,» said Neifert.

Nerves that lead from the nipple and areola send a signal to the brain to stimulate the release of breast milk and the production of more milk.

When your baby breastfeeds, or you pump your breast milk, the nerves in your breasts send a signal to your brain to release the hormones oxytocin and prolactin.

Every time you do it, the nerves in your breasts send a signal to your brain to release prolactin, the hormone that's behind milk production.

The nerves attached to his bladder need to send a strong enough signal to his brain to wake him up and tell him he needs to go to the bathroom.

Implementing the compensation package in full would send the right signal and steady the nerves of an industry on its knees.

When light hits the retinas of the eyes every morning, specialized nerves send signals to the SCN, which in turn controls the production cycle of a multitude of biologically active substances.

Further study revealed that these so - called immune proteins are actually present on the surface of certain nerve cells, but that they functioned differently in the brain than they did in the rest of the body; rather than scouting for germs, they influenced signals sent between neurons.

A nerve cell, which sends signals using serotonin, first releases serotonin into the space between the nerve cells.

Maybe the microbes send signals along the vagus nerve, a kind of information highway that runs from gut to brain.

The hand sends signals via sensors in the hand's «tendons» to nerves in the patient's arm.

Some scientists see waves as inevitable but useless by - products of the signals that really matter — messages sent by individual nerve cells.

When immune cells attack myelin, nerve cells can't send their signals.

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 electrodes stimulate the neurons in the retina, which send secondary signals down the optic nerve to the brain.

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.

The brain controls movement by sending electrical signals to our muscles through nerve cells.

Just a day after fertilization, embryonic brains begin sending signals to far - off places in the body, helping oversee the layout of complex patterns of muscles and nerve fibers.

The injured nerve hairs can no longer send signals from the ear to the tone map.

«In doing so, we also altered their ability to send nerve signals to the appropriate muscle targets.»

In 2004, surgeons placed a tiny 100 - electrode array in his primary motor cortex, the brain region that controls voluntary movement, to collect electrical impulses from nerve cells and send them to a series of signal processors.

Our nerve and muscle cells send signals to each other using ions and molecules.

BREATHLESS Nerve endings in the lungs send signals — triggered by force - detecting proteins — to the brain and spinal cord that help regulate breathing.

In extreme conditions, pain or numbness is perceived by the brain using signals sent by these peripheral nerves.

When these photoreceptors detect light, they send a signal to specialized neurons in the retina called retinal ganglion cells, or RGCs, which then transmit visual information to the brain by firing electrical pulses along the optic nerve.

This brain chemical (also known as a neurotransmitter) helps nerve cells to send signals to other nerve cells.

Neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain communicate with each other by transmitting electric signals, or firing action potentials, through long processes named axons (which send out signals) and dendrites (which receive signals).

The idea was that when the nerves on the nonparalyzed side send a signal for the muscle to contract, forming a smile, they do so for the paralyzed side of the face, too, Boahene said.

When one wafts into our nostrils, these receptors send nerve signals to sensory way stations called glomeruli, which pass them along to the brain for interpretation — «Oh, a rose!»

Some of the cells in this layer (the photoreceptors) convert light into an electrical signal that is then amplified and processed by other cells before being sent to the brain via the optic nerve.

Two types of nerves transmit signals between the body and the brain: efferent nerves, which relay signals from the brain to the body, and afferent nerves, which send signals from the body to the brain.

Relying on electricity from the grid to power the hand means all the muscles and nerves need do is send the right signals to a prosthetic.

Using a two - ply of flexible, thin plastic, scientists have created novel electronic sensors that send signals to the brain tissue of mice that closely mimic the nerve messages of touch sensors in human skin.

The electrical signals must then be sent to another processing chip that converts the strength of the signals to a digital stream of pulses that is only then sent on to peripheral nerves or brain tissue.

Without myelin to insulate neurons, signals sent down nerve cell axons quickly lose power.

Perhaps, the early brain investigators considered, it took time for nerves to send signals too.

In general, a neuron spikes, meaning it it sends an electrical signal that travels down a nerve fiber, when cued by a sensory element.

The information gathered by your senses is transmitted by nerve cells, or neurons, to specific brain regions where the signal is routed through circuits and sent downstream to areas that essentially translate the information into behavior and get you back on track.

Some nerve cells send signals far away to other areas of the brain, while other neurons send signals within the same area.

These nerve cells send signals to tell the body's digestive system how to respond properly and regulate normal functions of digestion.

Humans think, learn and memorize with the help of nerve cells sending signals between each other.

By determining the structure of a protein involved in modulating the electrical signals sent from one nerve cell to another, scientists have resolved, in exquisite detail, a mechanism responsible for...

Group II and III mGluRs are present in synapses that can either excite or inhibit the vagal nerve cells that send signals to the pancreas, and different outcomes can be seen depending on which group of mGluRs glutamate acts upon.

It blocks signals by preventing nerve cells from sending messages upstream to the brain.

The processor then sends that pattern wirelessly to a chip implanted above the retina, where 60 electrodes stimulate undamaged cells, creating signals that travel up the optic nerve.

Replacing rods and cones is challenging, because these cells have to establish connections with nerve fibers that feed signals into the optic nerve, which sends those signals to the brain to interpret.

Neurexins interact with binding partners called neuroligins to link neighboring nerve cells together so that signals can be sent and received correctly.

Gliomas are brain tumors that arise from glial cells, which help nerve cells to stay connected and send signals throughout the body.