nerve cell
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Jefferis' team and collaborators painstakingly analysed every nerve cell, every wire and every connection in a male fruit fly.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
In studies involving mice, the treatment reduced nerve cell loss, helped the animals live longer, and targeted a biological process that existing Alzheimer's drugs do not address.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 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
