ganglion
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Specialised ganglion cells are significantly involved in this process, which -- like the cones and rods -- are sensitive to light and react particularly strongly to short-wavelength light at a wavelength of around 490 nanometres.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
In contrast, they found 21 orthotypes of retinal ganglion cells, which exhibit greater variation among species.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
Retinal ganglion cells are the gatekeepers for the visual input that reaches the brain.
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
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
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
“We’re working on the spinal ganglia, too. Someday the Boneli test will fade into yesterday’s hoary shroud of spiritual oblivion.”
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
The significance of this sudden inertia is forced upon me: the Philanthus has stabbed the cervical ganglions.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
The thing got right in among Lord Wetherby's highly sensitive ganglions like an earthquake.
From Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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