ganglion
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"Rather, our results support the findings of many other studies that the light-sensitive ganglion cells are most important for the human internal clock," says the scientist.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
In contrast, they found 21 orthotypes of retinal ganglion cells, which exhibit greater variation among species.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
Retinal ganglion cells are the gatekeepers for the visual input that reaches the brain.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
It found people with Parkinson's had a thinner ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer and inner nuclear layer in the eye.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2023
He is more like a ganglion on legs.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
The team also tested a more direct method by injecting isolated mitochondria from both humans and mice into the dorsal root ganglia, clusters of nerve cells that send sensory information to the brain.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
Using mouse antibodies that glom on to proteasomes, and other methods, the investigators found the proteasomes on the surface of neurons in the spinal cord, dorsal root ganglia, sciatic nerve and peripheral nerves innervating skin.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
The basal ganglia receives signals from the motor cortex as skaters leap and twirl in the air.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
The scientists found that abnormalities occurred specifically in the anterior neostriatum within the basal ganglia, a structure found deep in the brain.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2024
“The reflex-arc response taking place in the upper ganglia of the spinal column requires several microseconds more in the humanoid robot than in a human nervous system.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
They have a brain that’s wrapped around their esophagus, ganglions on every one of their little suckers.
From Slate ● May 31, 2017
Peter and Paul are so busy representing alternate responses to stimuli that they seem ganglions rather than real folks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Simple and sensible though these reforms seemed to outsiders, they cut deep into Yale's vital fabric of traditions, left a mass of supersensitive and unsutured ganglions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Therefore, if every sensation in the body acts on the brain by the aid of secondary brains or ganglions, it must be that the brain in turn can in some way act on the body.
From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Charles Godfrey Leland
After peace had been signed he was sent into garrison at Toulon and Monaco, where an inflammation of the lymphatic ganglions of the neck necessitated an operation which left him deeply scarred for life.
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler
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