neuron

[US]/'njʊərɒn/
[UK]/'nʊrɑn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. nerve cell, unit of the nervous system.

Phrases & Collocations

motor neuron

Example Sentences

the cell body of a neuron

neurons control the contraction of muscles.

serotonergic neurons; serotonergic drugs.

a sympathetic neuron; sympathetic stimulation.

TIDA neurons were unaffected while NSDA neurons suffered loss of cell bodies and axon terminal DA.

The perikaryon and process of the CSF contacting neurons in the periventricular nucleus were also in NADPH positive reaction.

Two specialized epidermal cells and a bipolar neuron are associated with each sensillum.

Biocytin stainings indicated that the recorded neurons located in MVN and the axons’ terminals went into the area of the medial E group neurons.

It seems that saccadic responses in telencephalic neurons are generated by corollary discharge signals from brainstem neurons that are transmitted through optokinetic and thalamic neurons.

Gliacyte was more sensitive than neuron.A small number of enevloped virions were observed in nucleus and cytoplasm of gliacyte and neuron.

Objective: To explore the effect of cholecystokinin on electricity activity of gastric distention related neurons in the nucleus of tractus solitarius.

Abducens neurons in the lagging group but not those in the leading group were activated by antidromic stimulation of the contralateral oculomotor nucleus.

According to Van Cauter, the mechanism may have to do with a small area in the brain where neurons respond to both eating and sleeping.

Objective\ To study the regularity of the postnatal development of the NOS positive neurons within the corpus callosum and commissural rostralis of the rat.

Abstract: Objective To investigate the changes in the firing activity of noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus (LC) in a rat model of Parkinson disease (PD).

The sympathetic postganglionic neurons of spleen were concentrated in the left upper region of celiac-superior mesenteric ganglion;

This type of infarction is marked by loss of neurons and neuroglial cells and the formation of a clear space at the center left.

Objective: To explore the effects of upper and lower spinal nerve roots anastomosis on prevention of the axotomy-induced neurons atrophy and apoptosis of adult rats after spinal cord injury (SCI).

Real-world Examples

Two groups of neurons emerge from that region.

Source: Osmosis - Endocrine

Your brain is 10% neurons, and 90% glial cells.

Source: If there is a if.

Sun thus thinks of these Tac1-expressing neurons as the itch neurons in the brain.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds - Scientific American August 2019 Collection

There's flood in our mind of certain neurons firing in certain neuron pathway.

Source: Harvard University's "The Science of Happiness" course.

Consider that there are a hundred billion neurons in the brain.

Source: Connection Magazine

Tetanospasmin works by entering special inhibitory neurons called Renshaw cells.

Source: Osmosis - Microorganisms

It's the ions that… " … enable communication between biological and artificial neurons."

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American August 2022 Compilation

A future part of treating pain could therefore involve targeting these particular neurons.

Source: Scientific 60 Seconds - Scientific American October 2019 Collection

The human brain has 100 billion neurons and up to 150 trillion synapses.

Source: VOA Special September 2014 Collection

GAD helps make gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), which regulates motor neurons in the brain.

Source: Intermediate English short passage

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