innervate
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The researchers focused on sympathetic nerves that innervate our organs and produce the messenger hormone noradrenaline, which is also a stress hormone.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
Your sensory neurons innervate all the muscles in your body, and from how much your muscles are stretched, you have a very visual—without actually looking—image of where your limbs are.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 8, 2021
Some parts of the body might be more sensitive to NaV1.7 blockers than others, because neurons that innervate one organ might have different populations of ion channels than neurons in another.
From Nature ● Sep. 10, 2019
“As it goes down, the branches innervate the muscle, and then it goes down to the thumb over here,” he says.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 29, 2016
Sympathetic nervous system: applied to the nerves and ganglia of the alimentary canal and sonic other viscera which they innervate; = vagus; visceral nervous system.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
The researchers knew that muscles become less innervated, or infiltrated with nerves, as people and animals age.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2023
These cells are innervated by preganglionic autonomic nerve fibers from the central nervous system.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The resulting difference in pain threshold is due to the fact that the upper region is innervated by visceral sensory fibers, and the lower region is innervated by somatic sensory fibers.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The lungs are innervated by the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems, which coordinate the bronchodilation and bronchoconstriction of the airways.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
In self-satisfaction the extensor muscles are innervated, the eye is strong and glorious, the gait rolling and elastic, the nostril dilated, and a peculiar smile plays upon the lips.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
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
Secretion of these hormones is stimulated by acetylcholine release from preganglionic sympathetic fibers innervating the adrenal medulla.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The sequence of events that result in the contraction of an individual muscle fiber begins with a signal—the neurotransmitter, ACh—from the motor neuron innervating that fiber.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
There were swelling songs, innervating rain storms, and jiggly dances, but no onscreen kissing.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2012
The ganglia of the three post-oral segments, which bear the jaws, have fused in one compound ganglion innervating the mouth and jaws.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason
