ganglion
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Specialised ganglion cells are significantly involved in this process, which -- like the cones and rods -- are sensitive to light and react particularly strongly to short-wavelength light at a wavelength of around 490 nanometres.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
During development, the retinal ganglion cells also generate their own neuronal activity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 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
These overstimulated immune cells then move toward the dorsal root ganglia -- the sensory nerve hubs that link the limbs to the spinal cord -- and release inflammatory compounds that irritate and damage nerves.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2025
"A previous study showed that the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia were mostly deactivated under anesthesia, which we also observed, however, in awake states these areas are significantly activated."
From Science Daily ● May 31, 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
“We’re working on the spinal ganglia, too. Someday the Boneli test will fade into yesterday’s hoary shroud of spiritual oblivion.”
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
The brain of the vertebrata is merely an expansion of one of the ganglions of the nervous cord of the mollusca and crustacea.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
His ganglions were big, as was the case in all great preachers.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies
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