nerve cell
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In brain organoids, which are miniature three dimensional models of brain tissue, sildenafil promoted nerve cell growth.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
Its inner region, called gray matter, contains nerve cell bodies along with astrocytes.
From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026
In Parkinson's disease, this protein sticks together into toxic clumps that cause nerve cell death and leads to patients suffering from symptoms such as tremors, difficulties moving and muscle stiffness.
From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025
The team engineered a peptide fragment that locks alpha-synuclein into its healthy shape, blocking its conversion into the toxic clumps that cause nerve cell death.
From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 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
