ablate

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Zhang and colleagues showed that bulge regions are highly innervated by sympathetic neurons, and that ablating the SNS using a neurotoxin molecule, or blocking the release of noradrenaline from sympathetic neurons, prevented stress-induced greying.

From Nature

Nearby, a team clad in green day-glow shirts worked inside a small hooded enclosure to test a laser to “ablate,” or erase, the film.

From Washington Post

Second, although Chang et al. chose to ablate forebrain progenitors, the same principle can be applied to other regions or cell types in the CNS.

From Nature

“The U.S. spent years and years to develop nose cones that would ablate uniformly so the reentry vehicle wouldn’t drift off target,” said David Wright, a weapons expert at the Union of Concern Scientists.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, plasticity appears to enable tumour maintenance once Lgr5+ cells have been ablated, although it is not able to fuel tumour growth as efficiently.

From Nature