innervation

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In first clinical studies, researchers have injected precursors of dopaminergic neurons into the striatum, to try and make up for the lost natural innervation.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2023

"Somewhat surprisingly, we observed a high level of dopaminergic innervation, as well as synapses forming between dopaminergic neurons and neurons in striatum and cortex," Reumann recalls.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2023

Moreover, BAT innervation in mice lacking S100b was reduced compared with that in wild-type mice, whereas innervation of other organs, such as the salivary glands, was unaffected.

From Nature • Apr. 30, 2019

In skeletal muscles, ACh receptors are initially present along most of the surface of the myoblasts, but spinal nerve innervation causes the release of growth factors that stimulate the formation of motor end-plates and NMJs.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Although de Sinety, as shown above, had practised the ablation of the mammary glands during lactation, it would seem that mutilation rather than complete ablation preceded his experiments on the innervation of the mammary nerve.

From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Leffingwell, Albert