ganglion

If short-wavelength light activates the ganglion cells, they signal to the internal clock that it is daytime.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023

These cell types make up only 2% to 4% of all ganglion cells in mice, whereas 90% of retinal ganglion cells are midget cells in humans.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

In addition, the axons of retinal ganglion cells secrete molecular factors that are received by cells in the central brain and induce developmental changes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023

It found people with Parkinson's had a thinner ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer and inner nuclear layer in the eye.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2023

You might begin at the local beach, which functions as a sort of ganglion.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

They found that DRN serotonin stimulation causes activation of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, brain areas involved in many cognitive functions.

From Science Daily ● May 31, 2024

The basal ganglia receives signals from the motor cortex as skaters leap and twirl in the air.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

The scientists found that abnormalities occurred specifically in the anterior neostriatum within the basal ganglia, a structure found deep in the brain.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2024

Ullman says the findings underscore the potential utility of drugs that are known to improve movement impairments due to basal ganglia dysfunction, such as those that act on dopamine receptors.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2024

“The reflex-arc response taking place in the upper ganglia of the spinal column requires several microseconds more in the humanoid robot than in a human nervous system.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

They have a brain that’s wrapped around their esophagus, ganglions on every one of their little suckers.

From Slate ● May 31, 2017

Peter and Paul are so busy representing alternate responses to stimuli that they seem ganglions rather than real folks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simple and sensible though these reforms seemed to outsiders, they cut deep into Yale's vital fabric of traditions, left a mass of supersensitive and unsutured ganglions.

From Time Magazine Archive

After peace had been signed he was sent into garrison at Toulon and Monaco, where an inflammation of the lymphatic ganglions of the neck necessitated an operation which left him deeply scarred for life.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler

My ganglions were still vibrating as I ran the car into the stables of Brinkley Court, and it was a much shaken Bertram who tottered up to his room to change into something loose.

From Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse