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n. (nerve cell English)
Usage examples of "nerve cells".
It is found in the tissues and fluids of the body notably of the brain and nerve cells.
He had to force himself to slow down and concentrate, and when he did he learned that deoxy-glucose was so similar to glucose, the biological fuel of the brain, that it was transported across the blood-brain barrier and picked up by the active nerve cells.
The sugar will enter the nerve cells and, over the next couple of hours, begin to be built into the cell membranes.
The internal story of the development of the mind can be summed up as a series of steps in which the key 'player' is the nerve cell A nerve cell is an extended object that can send signals from one place to another Once you've got nerve cells you can have networks of nerve cells.
The fibers of the nerve cells of the retina gather into the optic nerve (which, along with the retina itself, is actually a part of the brain, from a structural point of view.
Many of these billions of nerve cells have each more than a thousand 'electric wires' connecting them to other neurones.
Viral agents that grow in the central nervous system spread along nerve cells.
It's made of millions of little bunches of interconnected nerve cells.
You cannot really prove your theories because you cannot study single nerve cells in sufficient detail without damaging them.
The nerve cells were actively reproducing themselves at a furious rate.
Within this pontine region are two populations of nerve cells that have distinctive chemical signatures.
But then, once inside the active nerve cells it could not be metabolized like glucose, and piled up.
Focal nerve cells have either dropped out or are in bad shape with dark, disintegrating nuclei.
In order to do this we would have to take a biopsy a few weeks ahead of time, that is, take an actual sample of the patient's brain tissue, then genetically reengineer the nerve cells - in and of itself, hardly a trivial operation - and grow them in vitro until we had enough.
It is estimated that there are in the human brain about twelve thousand millions of nerve cells or neurons, and more than half of these are in the cerebral cortex.