Sentences with phrase «sympathetic nerve cells»

In the present study, the researchers carried out a large - scale analysis of sympathetic nerve cells, from which they were able to demonstrate that there are many different types of sympathetic neurons and that the different types are associated with a particular functions.

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Sympathetic nerves originate inside the vertebral column, toward the middle of the spinal cord in the intermediolateral cell column (or lateral horn), beginning at the first thoracic segment of the spinal cord and are thought to extend to the second or third lumbar segments.

Low temperatures activate the brown - fat thermogenesis process via the sympathetic nervous system: Nerve ends in brown fat tissue release the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, and that triggers a shift in metabolism within the brown fat cells, which are densely packed with tiny biological energy reactors called mitochondria.

Neuroblastoma is a cancer of immature nerve cells in the sympathetic nervous system that is identified in about 700 people in the United States annually, mostly children 5 years old or younger.

Studies conducted by Hendry at the Australian National University and by K. Stockel and H. Thoenen at the Basel Institute for Immunology have demonstrated that NGF is taken up at the terminal nerve endings of the sympathetic fibers and transported back to the neuronal cell body along the axon.

This ability of NGF to sustain sympathetic neurons in culture has since made possible some ingenious and revealing experiments on neuronal differentiation [see «The Chemical Differentiation of Nerve Cells.»