Sentences with phrase «transmitted along nerves»

Messages are transmitted along nerves in the form of electric impulses.

When enough ions have flowed into the nerve cell, an electrical impulse is released and transmitted along the nerve.

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Nerve cells communicate by means of electrical impulses, which are transmitted along neural processes known as axons.

These electrodes pulse to stimulate cells in the retina, transmitting visual information along the optic nerve to the brain, creating the perception of patterns of light.

When chemical phosphate groups are added to the receptors, they move from the cytoplasm and cluster on the edges of nerve cells along synapses — the spaces between nerve cells where messages transmit from one cell to another.

A healthy optic nerve has axons transmitting information from the eye to the brain along the nerve after considerable information processing and synaptic transmission between various cell types within the retina.

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.

The cochlea transmits sound information through these nerves to the spiral ganglion, which then passes along those messages to the brain.

It's believed that capsaicin short - circuits pain by depleting nerve cells of a chemical called substance P (which helps transmit pain signals along nerve endings to the brain).