Sentence examples for nerve cell from inspiring English sources

We found that if you change the chemistry of the nerve cell, elevate a molecule -- the cyclic AMP, or the cAMP -- nerve cell regrowth is no longer inhibited.

The drug blocks a brain chemical, glutamate, which has been implicated in nerve cell death.

But treated mice kept their nerve cell connections and had fewer memory and behavioural problems.

No single nerve cell is separated from any other by more than six neurons".

"But apparently the additional synapses per nerve cell were sufficient to increase learning and performance".

Sodium ions accumulate outside the nerve cell and potassium ions inside.

"If you lose a nerve cell, it doesn't come back," she said.

These attach themselves to nerve-cell proteins called AMPA receptors.

But Dr. Ross also suggested that caffeine might somehow protect against the nerve-cell destruction that causes Parkinson's.

Dr. Small and others suspect that the non-Alzheimer's related deficits in memory are a result of faulty wiring rather than actual nerve-cell death.

Instead, it seems to make neurons more or less likely to fire, by changing the electrical potential of nerve-cell membranes.