Sentence examples for nerve cell content from inspiring English sources

The large brain of humans is attributable not so much to an increased nerve cell content as to an increase in the size of the nerve cells and to a greater complexity of the connections linking one cell to another.

Chitosan films showed significantly enhanced neurite outgrowth relative to chitin films, reflecting the dependence of nerve cell affinity on the amine content in the polysaccharide: neurites extended 1794.7±392.0 μm/mm2 on chitosan films vs. 140.5±41.6 μm/mm2 on chitin films after 2 days of culture.

While a nerve cell can trigger a nerve cell downstream to turn on or off, a digital kind of information transfer, analog interactions among nerve cells involve graded effects.

How it works Calcium normally enters the nerve cell through specialized channels, enabling the release of chemical transmitters that nerve cells need to communicate with other nerve cells in the spinal cord.

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.

Axon, also called nerve fibre, portion of a nerve cell (neuron) that carries nerve impulses away from the cell body.

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".

His father passed away in 2010 from nerve cell disease ALS, which has no known causes or cures.