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nerve cell

NOUN
cell of the nervous system
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Jefferis' team and collaborators painstakingly analysed every nerve cell, every wire and every connection in a male fruit fly.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The nerve cell death typically associated with dementia slowed significantly, and the treated animals lived longer.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Its inner region, called gray matter, contains nerve cell bodies along with astrocytes.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2026

By mapping these gene activity patterns, they produced a detailed cellular atlas outlining the boundaries between distinct nerve cell types across the CA1 region.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2025

They can specify how a nerve cell communicates with another nerve cell and thus become the arbiters of normal cognition and neural development.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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