When light wavelengths reach the eye, they act on special nerve cells called cones.
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This damage may stimulate thenervecellto initiate repair processes which are utilised by the virus to replicate.
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The method is based upon the fact that changing membrane potentials of dendrites andnervecellbodies generate extracellular current flow.
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In neurobiology, un is the electrical potential, either of the nthnervecellor the nth node of the axon.
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It is not known whether inflammatory changes are responsible for activenervecelldeath or whether they have protective functions during degeneration of dopamine neurons.
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Whenever an action potential travels along a nerve fiber, or when the potential of anervecellchanges, an electromagnetic field will induce potential changes in surrounding neurons.
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Thenervecellcan never recover and damage to it is irreversible.
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The brain cell, thenervecell, never heals.
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He made early observations associated with syphilis to tabes dorsalis (nerve fiber andnervecelldegeneration).
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When chloride enters thenervecell, the cell membrane potential hyperpolarizes thereby inhibiting depolarization, or reduction in the firing rate of the post-synapticnervecell.
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This gene codes for a protein named anosmin-1, which is responsible for migration of certainnervecellprecursors during embryogenesis.
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Internal to this peripheral region is the gray, butterfly-shaped central region made up ofnervecellbodies.
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The axon of anervecellis, in general, responsible for transmitting information over a relatively long distance.
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To send chemical messages from one neuron to another, serotonin must bind to the receptor sites located on the neighboringnervecell.
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When sphingolipids are not made, an accumulation of toxic byproducts can also lead tonervecelldeath.
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Nervonic acid has been identified as important in the biosynthesis ofnervecellmyelin.
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