innervation

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In first clinical studies, researchers have injected precursors of dopaminergic neurons into the striatum, to try and make up for the lost natural innervation.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2023

"Somewhat surprisingly, we observed a high level of dopaminergic innervation, as well as synapses forming between dopaminergic neurons and neurons in striatum and cortex," Reumann recalls.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2023

Moreover, BAT innervation in mice lacking S100b was reduced compared with that in wild-type mice, whereas innervation of other organs, such as the salivary glands, was unaffected.

From Nature • Apr. 30, 2019

Hair also has a sensory function due to sensory innervation by a hair root plexus surrounding the base of each hair follicle.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Hence this organ, when weakened by structural change and insufficiently stimulated through diminished innervation, may not fully empty itself during the systole, and consequently it becomes dilated.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various