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
It serves as his central political nerve system, always calling everyone, yet it cannot receive simple, precise text messages when Pelosi would prefer to deliver a quick message about vote timing, without actually calling Schumer.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 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
In this crowd of nerve cells are the stores of nerve energy supplied to the nerve system, with every exercise of which molecular changes in the brain are believed to take place.
From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Calderwood, Henry