nerve system
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The team used cutting-edge technology to directly manipulate fat or sugar neurons in the vagus nerve system and demonstrated that both types of neurons cause a dopamine release in the brain's reward center in mice.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
Van Achterberg, who runs a modeling agency, got into the sport after her left leg was amputated following an injury when she was 11 that left her nerve system severely damaged.
From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2023
But one thing researchers have recently come to understand is that the pelvic nerve system varies enormously from one woman to the next.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2016
Kyle Lowry, the Raptors’ engine and nerve system, had shed several pounds to make his killer first half of the previous year more sustainable.
From The Guardian • May 17, 2016
As we ascend, separate organs appear, fulfilling distinct functions, and controlled by means of a nerve system whose ramifications are according to the intricacy of the organism.
From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Calderwood, Henry