Sentence examples for group of nerve cells from inspiring English sources
The researchers exposed a group of nerve cells to NMDA.
They then added minocycline to one group of nerve cells while left another group untreated.
A tiny group of nerve cells deep in the brain could control risk-taking behaviour, according to new research.
Later in evolution, dedicated signalling lines (nerves) appear, connecting the receptor cells with a central group of nerve cells – neurons – that are the forerunners to our own brains.
We know from the literature that light activates the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which is a group of nerve cells in the brain that controls the timing of the sleep-wake cycle and coordinates with our circadian rhythms.
Almost all pelagic ciliated eumetazoan (neuralian) larvae have a group of nerve cells with long cilia at the apical pole.
It is thought that Sydenham chorea is caused by a malfunctioning of the basal ganglia, groups of nerve cells in the brain.
Researchers in the United States have developed a new method for controlling the brain circuits associated with complex animal behaviours, using genetic engineering to create a magnetised protein that activates specific groups of nerve cells from a distance.
Its secretory products, vasopressin and oxytocin, are produced and packaged into neurosecretory granules in specific groups of nerve cells in the hypothalamus (the supraoptic nuclei and the paraventricular nuclei).
Since the strength of a memory seems to depend on the strength of connections between groups of nerve cells, the infuriating fallibility of memory may be a necessary consequence of retaining the ability to overwrite what you know when you discover that it is no longer correct.
How these widely spaced neuronal responses are "bound" together into the coherent perception of a rolling apple is, as yet, unknown.Some neuroscientists, notably Wolf Singer, at the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt, think the brain achieves perceptual binding by combining the activities of disparate groups of nerve cells into one synchronised, wavelike processing unit.
