ganglion
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If short-wavelength light activates the ganglion cells, they signal to the internal clock that it is daytime.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
For bipolar cells, which are a class of neurons that lie between the photoreceptors and retinal ganglion cells, they found 14 distinct orthotypes.
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
Retinal ganglion cells are the gatekeepers for the visual input that reaches the brain.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
You might begin at the local beach, which functions as a sort of ganglion.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Results show 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
"A previous study showed that the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia were mostly deactivated under anesthesia, which we also observed, however, in awake states these areas are significantly activated."
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
Additionally, basal ganglia abnormalities could potentially serve as early biomarkers of an increased likelihood of developmental language problems.
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
I tell you, Comrade Jackson, for the moment it reduced my delicately vibrating ganglions to a mere frazzle.
From Psmith in the City by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
His ganglions were big, as was the case in all great preachers.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies
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