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nerve cell

NOUN
cell of the nervous system
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However, many researchers now believe chronic inflammation in the brain may also be a key factor driving nerve cell damage.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

By mapping these gene activity patterns, they produced a detailed cellular atlas outlining the boundaries between distinct nerve cell types across the CA1 region.

From Science Daily • Dec. 6, 2025

In Parkinson's disease, this protein sticks together into toxic clumps that cause nerve cell death and leads to patients suffering from symptoms such as tremors, difficulties moving and muscle stiffness.

From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025

The injured organoids showed some of the same features seen in TBI patients, including nerve cell death and pathological changes in tau proteins, as well as in a protein called TDP-43.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

They can specify how a nerve cell communicates with another nerve cell and thus become the arbiters of normal cognition and neural development.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee



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