nerve
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Researchers have discovered how a crucial protein switches on brown fat by helping it build the blood vessels and nerve connections needed for heat production.
From Science Daily
This then activated vagal nerve fibers, which carry signals from the gut to the brain.
From Science Daily
Yet that hasn't eased the nerves of a nation that Gates says is still "scarred" from the play-off defeats by Sweden and North Macedonia over the past decade.
From BBC
As a result, proteins are not properly degraded, which can lead to the death of nerve cells.
From Science Daily
“The Pit and the Pendulum,” the first half of the program, translates especially well to this setting, its dark sense of demented confinement keeping my nerves on high alert.
From Los Angeles Times
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