direct pathway

collocation in English

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direct
adjective
uk
/daɪˈrekt/us
/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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pathway
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɑːθ.weɪ/us
/ˈpæθ.weɪ/
a track that a person can ...
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The spaces between them, called channels, would be adirectpathwayfrom the blood capillaries along the tunnels of the vitelline envelope towards the oocyte.
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A set of different bipolar cell types provides thedirectpathwayfrom the photoreceptors to the ganglion cells that relay the information to the brain.
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Attempts a t modulating this rejection process have therefore targeted this so-calleddirectpathway of antigen recognition, by depleting the passenger leukocytes in the graft.
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This provides a seconddirectpathwayto impulsivity.
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Although photoreceptor signals can reach higher brain centers on adirectpathwayvia bipolar cells and retinal ganglion cells, these signals are most likely modulated before leaving the retina.
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Access to these family resources may serve as protective factors that mitigate, at least to some degree, thedirectpathwaybetween interparental dysfunction and child insecurity in violent families.
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In thedirectpathway, the motor cortices send activating signals to the caudate and putamen (which together form the striatum).
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Thedirectpathwayconsists of axons from medium spiny cells in the striatum that project directly to pars reticulata.
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Thus, striatal activity via thedirectpathwayexerts an inhibitory effect on neurons in the pars reticulata but an excitatory effect via the indirect pathway.
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Dopamine excites striatal neurons in thedirectpathway.
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Dopamine is thought to promote action by upregulating thedirectpathwaywhile suppressing the indirect pathway.
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In effect, this pathway regulates thedirectpathwayby feeding back onto the output centers of the basal ganglia.
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When activated, thedirectpathwaysends sensory and motor information from the cortex to the first structure of the basal ganglia, the putamen.
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This pathway is defined as thedirectpathwaythrough the basal ganglia.
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While the net effect of thedirectpathwayis excitatory, the net effect of the indirect pathway is inhibitory.
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Similar to thedirectpathway, the indirect pathway is regulated by striatal dopamine.
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Dopamine therefore increases the excitatory effect of thedirectpathway(causing movement) and reduces the inhibitory effect of the indirect pathway (preventing full inhibition of movement).
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While deregulation of either of these pathways can disturb motor output, hyperkinesia is thought to result from overactivity of thedirectpathwayand decreased activity from the indirect pathway.
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Similar to these concepts, it should be noted that unidirectional character in "horizontal modulation" concerns only modulation via direct pathways without any intermediating connections.
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This analysis was conducted to assess the validity of the direct pathways in contrast to the indirect ones of the proposed/hypothesized model.
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